The Obama administration’s new fair housing rules are the strongest in decades, but may not mean much without meaningful enforcement.Â
Race & Ethnicity
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On Its 50th Anniversary, the Case for Restoring the Voting Rights Act
It’s been 50 years since Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, guaranteeing blacks the right to vote after decades of disenfranchisement. The landmark legislation came at a crucial time in American history; the civil rights movement was in full swing and progress was slowly being made. But in 2015, voting rights […]
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Will We See More Suburban Opposition to Fair-Housing Rules?
According to a Fair Housing complaint filed last month by the Department of Justice, Palmdale and Lancaster in the northern section of Los Angeles County are the latest satellite cities to be found discriminating against African American Section 8 voucher holders. This comes as disturbing but not unsurprising news as communities of color, particularly in […]
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The Inclusive Strength of #BlackLivesMatter
Why the fast-growing movement has been intertwined with labor, economic justice, immigration, and LGBT rights from the beginning.
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Racism on Camera
The recent wave of police violence isn’t anything new. It’s just been caught on video.Â
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Bernie Learns His Lesson — But Have the Rest of Us?
The progressive movement has a race problem.
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Black Lives Matter Convenes in Cleveland for First National Meeting
Today, hundreds of organizers, activists, and people involved in the Black Lives Matter movement arrived in Cleveland for the first national Movement for Black Lives convening. The timing is striking: two weeks after Sandra Bland was stopped by an authority-abusing Texas state trooper and was later found dead in her jail cell, and one week […]
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Why Netroots Nation Was Exactly the Right Place for a #BlackLivesMatter Protest
When you’re not being heard by your own side, it’s time to make noise.
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Jobs Are Great, but They Won’t End Structural Racism
Bernie Sanders touts policies that most progressives can get behind. His emphasis on good jobs for all is indisputably important and affects all Americans: white, black, Latino, Asian, and beyond. But when black people say Bernie Sanders has a blind spot on racial issues, we don’t mean that his economic policies aren’t important or don’t […]
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Why the Dichotomy Between Racial and Economic Justice is A False One
Yesterday, Vox‘s Dara Lind published a post analyzing what this past weekend’s protests at Netroots Nation tell us about splits within the progressive movement. I personally don’t think Bernie Sanders handled the Black Lives Matter demonstrators very well, and I imagine his advisers had several serious conversations with him following the conference about how to […]
