Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor The national picture for Black America is bleak enough, but the situation in cities like Chicago is downright catastrophic.
February 16, 2012 The Occupy movement has the potential to draw attention to how economic injustices overlap with racial injustices.
November 3, 2011 Ordinary African Americans will have to fight for their own "Black agenda" since no one can seriously expect Barack Obama to do it.
September 29, 2011 The biggest banks have been exposed for fraud in carrying out foreclosures--but the Obama administration is staying silent.
September 1, 2011 Far from being "pointless violence" the Black urban rebellions of the 1960s changed the direction of U.S. politics.
August 12, 2011 Barack Obama and his supporters are out to shore up the African American voting bloc for 2012--but his policies have been harmful to the Black community.
May 19, 2011 In the unfolding Egyptian revolution, leaders of the imperial West have tried to paint the struggle as "chaos."
February 10, 2011 An African American single mother in Ohio was sent to prison because her children attended a mostly white school.
February 2, 2011 The scapegoating of public-sector employees threatens to have a disproportionately disastrous impact in African American communities.
January 27, 2011 On the heels of a victory that stopped some evictions in Chicago, activists are calling for an immediate moratorium on all evictions.
October 22, 2010 While the media focuses on the plight of homeowners, there's a hidden housing crisis--the struggle of millions of people to find affordable rental units.
September 16, 2010 The firestorm over Shirley Sherrod and her firing shows how far the "national discussion" on race has shifted to the right.
July 28, 2010 After months of getting cover from the media and politicians, the so-called Tea Party Movement has been exposed for the racism at its core.
July 20, 2010 Some commentators interpret a slight decline in incarceration rates as a sign that the "war on crime" is over. But there's more to the question.
July 13, 2010 Arizona's draconian anti-immigrant law will create fear and intimidation--but it is also sparking resistance in the state and beyond.
April 30, 2010 The struggle of the Contract Buyers League in 1960s Chicago holds lessons for the victims of today's housing crisis.
March 24, 2010 African Americans suffering from foreclosures on homes and rentals can draw on the lessons of Martin Luther King's fight against slums in Chicago.
March 19, 2010 From redlining and segregation to predatory lending and foreclosures, racism against African Americans has always played out on the issue of housing.
March 15, 2010 The earthquake that rocked Haiti has brought back hard memories of the racist atmosphere whipped up after the Katrina disaster in New Orleans.
January 22, 2010 The economic crisis in Black communities constitutes an outright depression that has gone largely unnoticed because of the government's racist indifference.
January 8, 2010
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