Despite nearly a decade of Black Lives Matter protests, racist violence at the hands of police persists. A new report shows that 400 unarmed people have been murdered by police at traffic stops across the country in the last five years. Black drivers are...
While many people are familiar with the Flint water crisis, less people have heard about the water crisis in Benton Harbor, Michigan, where even higher concentrations of lead were found in the water system in 2018. Benton Harbor, Michigan has declared a state of...
Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden resigned in disgrace last week after a series of emails in which he used racist, sexist, and anti-gay remarks to criticize other people working within the NFL. Gruden’s remarks surfaced within the course of a separate investigation,...
On October 16th, 1859, John Brown and eighteen of his comrades raided the U.S. Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia. Their aim was to spark a slave insurrection that would destroy the southern slave economy, or at the very least to accelerate the...
Last week a camp of mostly Haitian migrants swelled at the border crossing at Del Rio, Texas, and by the end of the week an estimated 14,000 waited for their chance at a hearing to plead their case for entry into the U.S. While perhaps hundreds have now begun the...
