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  1. Elizabeth Warren’s Rousing ‘Power to the People’ Speech
    9 Sep 2014 … The Massachusetts senator says she's not running for president in 2016, but this speech shows why some think she should. Continue reading
  2. Reducing Jail: A New York Story
    12 Dec 2014 … Change is possible even in high-volume, urban justice systems. Continue reading
  3. Morning Reads: Congress Looks Like a Million Bucks and Duck Dynasty’s Fake Rednecks
    1 Jan 2014 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ. Continue reading
  4. “Slavery to Mass Incarceration” Screenshot from 'Slavery to Mass Incarceration'
    7 Jul 2015 … A new video from the Equal Justice Initiative sets out to explain how the myth of racial difference that was created to sustain American slavery persists today. Slavery did not end in 1865, it evolved. Continue reading
  5. The ‘Caravan Against Fear’ Wants You to Stay Home from Work on May 1 On day 8 of the Caravan Against Fear's journey, hundreds gathered to protest Los Angeles County Sheriff McDonnell's opposition to California sancutrary bill SB54 and his collaboration with ICE. (Photo courtesy of Caravan Against Fear)
    4 Apr 2017 … A coalition of community leaders, immigration advocates, labor groups and workers are touring the Western US to highlight the plight of immigrant workers and urge people to "shut it down" this Labor Day in protest of Trump's policies. Continue reading
  6. Going Multiracial Rinku Sen
    8 Aug 2013 … The demands of the March on Washington weren’t just about reshuffling the racial order; they repudiated racial hierarchy itself. Continue reading
  7. Jeanette Winterson
    9 Sep 2010 … Jeanette Winterson is a poet and novelist who has authored over 20 books. She was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2006 for services to literature, and, in 2011, her memoir WHY BE HAPPY WHEN YOU COULD Continue reading
  8. Why We Must Try DURHAM, NH - FEBRUARY 08: Audience members listen to Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) speak at a campaign rally and concert at the University of New Hampshire's Whittemore Center Arena on February 8, 2016 in Durham, New Hampshire. Sanders was campaigning on the eve of the New Hampshire primary, the nation's first. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
    2 Feb 2016 … Instead of “Yes we can,” many Democrats have adopted a new slogan this election year: “We shouldn’t even try.” We shouldn’t try for single-payer system, they say. We’ll be lucky if we prevent Republicans from repealing Obamacare. We shouldn’t try Continue reading
  9. America Now Has (at Least) 9,999 Problems Latinos vote at a polling station in El Gallo Restaurant on Nov. 8, 2016 in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles, California. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
    11 Nov 2016 … When I wrote this piece, “The Hole in Obama’s Legacy,” for The New Yorker back in August, I did not, even briefly, imagine that Obama’s failure to reach the white working class would lead to a Trump presidency. I thought Continue reading
  10. Toni Morrison: Dealing with Race in Literature (Part Two)
    3 Mar 1990 … Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Toni Morrison on the lack of discourse about race in literary criticism and the silent history of black characters in books. Continue reading