The Importance of Black-Asian Solidarity
Black-Asian solidarity is essential to dismantling white supremacy—but the road to achieving true unity has been complex and muddled by white-created tropes that help maintain the status quo.
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What Does It Take To Prosecute a Hate Crime?
The killings of Ahmaud, Breonna, George, and so many others, were unquestionably motivated by racial bias. But our justice system has a shaky history of prosecuting hate crimes.
‘Less-Lethal’ Weapons Still Can Kill
Pepper spray, tear gas, and rubber bullets are dangerous enough, but add inadequate police training and high tensions during protests, and less-lethal force is a recipe for disaster.
The Truth About Why COVID-19 Poses a Unique Threat to Black People
Misinformation, racial profiling, and a general—and warranted—distrust of the medical establishment put Black communities at disproportionate risk of Coronavirus infection, misdiagnosis, and death.
Black Youth Will Lead the Revolution
While the spotlight shines on the white leaders of March For Our Lives, a shadow is cast on Black Lives Matter, sending the message on whose bodies matter most.
‘Whose Streets?’ Reveals the Way Black Love Mattered in the Ferguson Protests
On the third anniversary of Mike Brown’s murder, one of the two directors of this stellar doc talks about the uprising and the duty to love and support one another in the ongoing fight for freedom.
Why Would Five Laughing Black Teenagers Think Black Lives Matter?
“Whupping sense” into the Florida kids who laughed as a man drowned perpetuates the white-supremacist cycle of abuse. What they need is more empathy and love.
The NRA Has Declared War on America
The gun-owning organization’s manipulative, lie-spewing, fear-mongering recruitment video is nothing short of a call to violence—and a testament to who they really are.
Pepsi: The Next Generation … of Cultural Appropriators
Brands have a long tradition of exploiting social-justice movements to hock their products—but do their campaigns undermine activists' power?
Black Activists Don’t Want White Allies’ Conditional Solidarity!
Last week, a “white ally” demanded the resignation of a Black Lives Matter organizer because he didn’t like her tone. Dictating the terms of our movement is not racial justice—take a seat.