Black Lives Matter

Resister’s Digest: Bringing Single-Payer Healthcare to Life

Single-payer healthcare is back in play after Trumpcare went down in flames.

Theo Anderson

Trump and the GOP Want to Make It Even Easier for Police to Get Military Gear

Should police get rifles, riot gear and armored vehicles from the Pentagon? The nation's largest police union thinks so—and it has the ear of the Trump administration.

Seth Kershner

Interviews for Resistance: “It Is Just Open Season Now” on Undocumented Immigrants

A longtime organizer talks about the brutal intersection of being black and undocumented.

Sarah Jaffe

Trump’s Crackdown on Dissent Begins: More Than 200 Inauguration Protesters Hit With Felony Charges

Protesters face up to 10 years in prison.

Sarah Lazare, AlterNet

Yes, Trump Is President. We Can’t Compromise in the Fight Against Criminalization.

We can't leave survivor-defendants, like Bresha Meadows and others, behind.

Alisa Bierria & Mariame Kaba, #SurvivedAndPunished

DOJ: To Address “Defective” Accountability System, Chicago Must Renegotiate Police Union Contracts

The DOJ's damning report found a pattern of racism and unreasonable force, and that contract provisions hinder investigations.

Adeshina Emmanuel

Interviews for Resistance: Mariame Kaba on Why the Time To Push for Single-Payer Is Now

The longtime organizer on how we can unite across difference to agitate for real progress under Trump—and push the Democrats left in the process.

Sarah Jaffe

Under Trump, Racial Justice Activists Must Seek Solutions Outside the State

Trump has promised to crack down on dissent, but the Movement for Black Lives must still grow stronger.

Asha Ransby-Sporn

America Needs a Network of Rebel Cities to Stand Up to Trump

With Trump in the White House and GOP majorities in the House and Senate, we must look to cities to protect civil liberties and build progressive alternatives from the bottom up.

Kate Shea Baird and Steve Hughes

An Indigenous Organizer at Standing Rock Speaks on Police Repression, Climate Chaos and Donald Trump

The water protectors at Standing Rock are still defiant in opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Dayton Martindale

Jeff Sessions Is Trump’s Nominee to Head the DOJ. Is Police Reform Doomed?

Trump's DOJ could halt federal efforts to reform police departments, but activists vow to continue the fight at the local level.

Adeshina Emmanuel

Police Are Still Getting Surplus Army Gear—and They’re Using it to Crack Down on Standing Rock

The armored vehicles used during mass arrests of water protectors last week likely came from a controversial Defense Department program.

Seth Kershner

Voices from the Movement for Native Lives

Advocates talk about the country's "silent, comfortable genocide."

Stephanie Woodard

Native Americans Are Being Killed by Police at a Higher Rate Than Any Other Group

These deaths are rarely covered in the media, but now, Native groups are organizing for justice in a growing Native Lives Matter movement.

Stephanie Woodard

Dump Trump, Defeat Racism and Misogyny, Build the Left

An open letter to the Left

47 Grassroots Organizers

More Than a Protest: Why Voting Green Counts

Jill Stein's campaign manager makes the case for a Green political revolution.

David Cobb

The Execution That Birthed a Movement

Troy Davis' death on Sept. 21, 2011, transformed Occupy and kindled Black Lives Matter.

Jen Marlowe and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

In Milwaukee, a History of Racist Violence Fuels Mistrust of the Police Department

A recent shooting recalls the decades of abuse inflicted on the city's African-American community by police.

Flint Taylor