Activist Linda Sarsour on the Arab American struggle against police brutality.Â
Race & Ethnicity
Posted inCivil Rights in America
We Can’t Talk About Housing Policy Without Talking About Racism
What a serious desegregation policy might look like.Â
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Little Magazine, Big Ideas: The American Prospect at 25
Reflecting on a quarter century of politics and change.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Women as the Loyal Opposition
When the outsider battles her way in, a corrective voice is heard.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Civil Rights Movement and the Politics of Memory
As opportunists try to hijack the movement’s legacy, let’s remember what actually occurred.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Mother’s Day, For Real
In the real America, the lives of women—especially black and brown women—are no bed of roses.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
If America Really Cared About Mothers, Reproductive Health Care Would Be Available to All
Rates of maternal death are greater in the U.S. than in 40 other countries. Yet we pin the perceived moral failings of Asian nations on pregnant immigrant women from India and China.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Ever the Protectors, Moms Seeking Asylum Need Protection, Too
Obama failed to specify that his enthusiasm for mothers is strictly limited to American moms.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
For Mothers Across America, a Somber Day of Remembrance
It seems wrong to celebrate when so many women are in pain over the loss of their children to oppression and violence.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Why There Are No Children Here: A Mother’s Day Lament
I let my well-founded fears of medical abandonment and loss of free agency keep me from being a mother. After all, I’m a black woman. That’s too often how it goes for us.
