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  • War & Peace
    Muhammad Ali Understood the Racist Roots of War and Militarism
    June 10, 2016
    | Phyllis Bennis
    And he called them out fearlessly.
  • Activism
    A Drone Protestor Heads to Jail
    January 20, 2016
    | Bill Moyers
    Fifty-nine-year-old Mary Anne Grady Flores will serve six months for photographing a protest of an airfield in upstate New York where drone pilots are trained and from where missions are carried out.
  • Activism
    In a Season of Rage, Populist Lessons From the Movement
    January 15, 2016
    | Harry Boyte
    The media casts Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders as populists. But a civil rights activist reminds us that the great populist movements of the past channeled people's anger into a force for constructive change.
  • Democracy & Government
    The Fight For America's Soul
    December 16, 2015
    | Harry Boyte
    One side pits winners and losers against each other in a race for the American Dream, while the other wonders what might be possible if we work together to form communities, build schools and create a culture of mutual respect.
  • Imagining a Progressive South
    August 12, 2015
    | Chisolm Allenlundy
    It is true that the South is beleaguered, but that only means we must do more to lift up those who are reshaping it.
  • Civil Liberties
    Ambitious New Bill Aims to Restore the VRA
    June 25, 2015
    | Ari Berman
    Two years ago, the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, Senator Patrick Leahy and Congressman John Lewis have a plan to fix that.
  • 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
    Remembering Jimmie Lee Jackson, the First Martyr of the Selma Struggle
    February 20, 2015
    | Ari Berman
    On the 50th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," activists gathered in Marion, Alabama, to honor and commemorate those who died fighting for equality and justice.
  • History
    Can History Teach Us Anything About How to Eradicate Inequality?
    January 18, 2015
    | Gary May
    Perhaps the most revolutionary effort to end American inequality occurred almost 50 years ago and was led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Inequality
    MLK's Hopes for America's Poor: A Dream Unfulfilled
    January 16, 2015
    | Karin Kamp
    When Martin Luther King Jr. died he was in the midst of planning a campaign to help the poor. "It is criminal to have people working on a full-time basis and a full-time job getting part-time income," King said.


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