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  • Elizabeth Warren on How America Excluded Black Families From the Middle Class
    September 28, 2015
    | BillMoyers.com Staff
    The senator spoke at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the US Senate last night about what Martin Luther King, Jr. called "the inseparable twin of racial injustice" -- economic injustice.
  • Honor Julian Bond’s Legacy by Protecting Voting Rights
    August 18, 2015
    | Ari Berman
    The civil rights leader helped pass the Voting Rights Act and fought for voting rights over five decades.
  • Putting Families First: Good Jobs for All
    May 6, 2015
    | Deepak Bhargava
    We've reached a point in history where we have the need, opportunity and energy to create an economy that works for our families — now we need to act!
  • One of These 4 Radical Women Could Be on the $20 Bill
    May 5, 2015
    | Lindsey Weedston
    Many women, especially women of color, have done great things to change our nation for the better in spite of incredible obstacles imposed on them.
  • Remembering a Tragic Anniversary
    March 25, 2015
    | Gary May
    Viola Liuzzo was the only white woman killed in the US civil rights movement. Behind her death, the KKK and a shadowy FBI informant.
  • Justice
    50 Years After Bloody Sunday, Voting Rights Are Under Attack
    March 6, 2015
    | Ari Berman
    Despite some improvements, the right to vote is under the most sustained attack since the passage of the VRA.
  • Civil Liberties
    50 Years After Selma's Bloody Sunday, Everything
    and Nothing Has Changed
    March 2, 2015
    | Ari Berman
    The Nation's Ari Berman writes that racism, segregation and inequality persist in this civil-rights battleground.
  • Justice
    New Report on Lynching Reveals America's Sinister Legacy of 'Racial Terrorism'
    February 11, 2015
    | Lauren McCauley
    Today's capital punishment and racial injustice are 'direct descendants of lynching.'
  • What Makes Nonviolent Movements Explode?
    December 29, 2014
    | Mark Engler and Paul Engler
    Some protests are ignored and forgotten while others dominate the news cycle for weeks, becoming touchstones in political life.
  • The Growing Movement for Racial and Social Justice
    December 8, 2014
    | Peter Dreier
    Activists are transforming outrage into community organizing projects, voter registration drives and mass protest campaigns.


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