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 […]
Race & Ethnicity
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Urban Policing, Without Brutality
Cincinnati has emerged as a role model of policing reform—but even the best-in-show has a long way to go.
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From Civil Rights to Obama, the Confederate Flag Has Meant One Thing
Oklahoma was not a part of the old Confederacy, but that historical fact did not stop some from greeting the first black president with the Confederate flag when he arrived in Oklahoma City on Wednesday. The purpose of Obama’s trip to the small town of Durant, Oklahoma was to visit the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, […]
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The Evolving Politics of Punk in the Nation’s Capital
Retrospective projects like the library’s new Punk Archive uncover D.C.’s radical past, but the scene remains at the center of the struggle for inclusion and human rights.
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Why Don’t Settlements Over Brutality Come Out of Police Budgets?
New York City’s recent $5.9 million settlement with the family of Eric Garner leaves the NYPD’s budget unscathed.
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Bernie is Putting Black Youth Unemployment Front and Center
A point of criticism regarding Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign is that as an old white man from the whitest state in the union, he’s not good at talking about racial issues in the United States. He’s more comfortable, the argument goes, focusing broadly on issues of economic inequality and unwieldy corporate influence. The critique, however, […]
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The Progressive Victory You Haven’t Heard Of: NYC’s Ban on Employment Credit Checks
The new law prohibits the discriminatory screening process, which disproportionately affects the poor and communities of color.
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Affirmative Action is Headed to the Supreme Court. Here’s Why We Still Need It
On June 29th, the Supreme Court announced that it would rehear Fisher v. Texas, a case where a white woman claims she was denied admission to the University of Texas at Austin because of her race. In 2013 ProPublica reported, Fisher was a good student, but her grades and test scores weren’t high enough for […]
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NEA Members Announce They Will Fight Institutional Racism. Do They Mean It?
At the National Education Association’s recently concluded annual meeting-a gathering where the country’s largest labor union sets its policy priorities for the coming year-delegates passed several historic measures that committed the union to fighting institutional racism. Perhaps the most notable measure was New Business Item B, which passed unanimously. It opened with language stating that […]
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Immigration and America’s Urban Revival
The evidence favors a hypothesis many Americans reject: Immigration has helped reduce crime and revitalize city economies.
