We’re tracking the world news so you don’t have to. Here’s what matters for our community right now. As we move through the fifth month of the year, the national landscape for the Black diaspora is...
Mike Johnson’s messaging “hides the truth that the United States — as we know it — could not exist without the massive wealth produced by slave labor and without the violent seizure of lands...
Reflections on the The Tops Mass Shooting in Buffalo, NY, four years out.
The administration’s crude vilification of anti-discrimination policies is meant to erase the radical promise of the Black freedom struggle. One year on, the Trump administration’s descent deeper into the gutter of racism no longer...
They may not suddenly vote for Democrats, but the 10,000-bed ICE facility planned next door has them rethinking their support for Republicans. SOCIAL CIRCLE, Ga. — In this deeply conservative town east of Atlanta,...
The gutting of the Voting Rights Act by the U.S. Supreme Court and the vicious attacks on immigrants of color appear to be separate actions—but they are not. They are both acts of voter...
The renewed escalation of hostility by the Trump administration towards Cuba—through tightened sanctions, political pressure, and open ideological aggression—once again exposes a fundamental contradiction. A country that presents itself as the “global model of democracy” continues...
Build communities for the low- to moderate-income people already living in those neighborhoods. A recent call to build hundreds of new “affordable” housing units on Buffalo’s more than 7,000 publicly owned vacant lots is...
As tech companies scramble to build massive new data centers to power artificial intelligence, marginalized communities are bearing the brunt of the environmental harms. In Memphis, Tennessee, Elon Musk’s xAI operates over two dozen...
Once again, one of our local politicians, in concert with her party, has acted to cut voters out of the electoral process. Crystal Peoples-Stokes was up for re-election this November for her seat representing...
In his first one hundred days as mayor, Zohran Mamdani has realized that New Yorkers — and all Americans — need to see the government working for them. March Madness is over, spring is...
