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  • Activism
    Black Lives Matter Co-Founder on the Movement's Future
    October 3, 2016
    | Karin Kamp
    Garza says even though this powerful movement is growing and evolving, the media still isn't doing enough to understand its members' diversity.
  • Justice
    Meet the Woman Behind #BlackLivesMatter
    May 4, 2015
    | Liz Pleasant
    Alicia Garza and two friends first tweeted #BlackLivesMatter to spark a conversation after the death of Trayvon Martin. Three years later, their rallying cry has gained significant national attention.
  • 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.
  • Justice
    Michael Dunn's Conviction is Not Enough to Ensure Justice
    October 6, 2014
    | Mychal Denzel Smith
    Justice, real justice, is not impossible. It’s elusive. It hides from us because our current definition is oriented toward revenge.
  • The Humanity of Michael Brown
    August 27, 2014
    | Ian Haney López
    Let's hope that Michael Brown's death is the one that finally pierces the national conscience with the essential truth that racial violence kills people.
  • Morning Reads: GOP Shifting From Obamacare to Benghazi; What Piketty Didn't Mention
    May 12, 2014
    A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ...
  • Stand Your Ground Defense in Killing of Black Teen
    February 4, 2014
    | Joshua Holland
    A new short film by Orlando Bagwell explores how these laws have created "a climate of fear that can prey upon and inflame racial tensions."
  • Why Today's Black Youth March on Washington
    August 29, 2013
    | Reniqua Allen
    Hear from young black activists about the issues that brought them to the capital on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington this week.
  • One Man, One Vote — A Dream Under Threat
    July 23, 2013 | Group Think

    Dr. King’s “I Have A Dream" speech, presented so eloquently during the March on Washington, has gone largely unfulfilled as we look at America 50 years later. To be sure, “the shackles of segregation" in the South that King fought to destroy have been mostly broken, but economically we are still two nations. Far too many African Americans still live on what King called that day, “a lonely island of poverty in the midst of ...

  • Web Extra: The Relentless Marketing of Guns
    July 19, 2013 | Moyers & Company
    Gun industry analyst Tom Diaz talks about the big business of "enhanced lethality."


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