The murder of a 17-year-old in Florida one year ago shattered the idea that the U.S. had become, since the election of a Black president, a post-racial society. February 26, 2013
We're told that we live in a "post-racial" society, but racism is alive and well in the U.S.--and benefiting the capitalist system in important ways. December 4, 2012
A Chicago newspaper's racist feature following the Sikh massacre in Wisconsin shows how deeply the media are infected by institutionalized bigotry. August 13, 2012
Twenty years later, many of the issues at the root of the LA Rebellion--police violence, mass incarceration, discrimination, inequality--still burn today. May 2, 2012
Most people would be horrified by the thought of a 6-year-old being handcuffed--but it's what happened to a Georgia kindergartner in April. May 1, 2012
