We don’t need future historians to look back to see what we already know: America is a split nation, and therefore, a dangerous nation.
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Incarcerating Black women for the crime of poverty
The nonprofit organization Prison Policy Initiative has reported that almost two out of every three women in jail have not been convicted of a crime.
Studies expose destructive housing inequities
Here in Minnesota, the data suggest housing costs are continuing to rise unabated, which again disproportionately affect communities of color.
Prison justice organizers celebrate a victory — with caution
A dialogue about reinstating Minnesota’s corrections ombudsman.
Reparations: 40 acres and an Obama?
Civil rights legislation did not level the playing field or make Black America whole, which is the point of reparations. Black people did not get full when the Obamas ate!
Watching a father and son
A video of DJ Pryor speaking with his toddler son about the season finale of Empire recently went viral. I watched it and loved it.
Remembering the Stonewall riots
The Stonewall turbulence started on the backs of working-class African American and Latinx queers who patronized the Stonewall Inn in New York City’s Greenwich Village.
Trump’s attempt to erase Harriet Tubman
The attempted erasure of Tubman represents yet another move in the Trump playbook to disconnect racial reality from White fantasy.
How prisons use Black bodies for White power
The body of the inmate of color, like the body of his or her enslaved ancestor, has been stolen in order to enhance the political power of his or her oppressor.
House Democrats want us to do their job
Fear of losing elections because you did your job is putting party before country.