Black Lives Matter

Walking While Black

Encounters with police in New York City.

Garnette Cadogan

The Radicalism of Black Lives Matter

Three years in, the youth-led movement has the power to transform the Left.

Martha Biondi

Black Lives Matter Is Showing Why Progressive Jews Must Support Palestinian Justice

The Movement for Black Lives' new platform has drawn a line in the sand over support for Palestinian rights and racial justice.

Kate Aronoff

The Black Political Establishment Should Never Have Given Hillary Clinton a Blank Check

The Sanders campaign was an opportunity to put pressure on Clinton, but instead the neoliberal Black elite backed her unconditionally.

James Thindwa

Killings By Police Haven’t Stopped Mexico’s Movement Against Neoliberal Education Reform

Despite police repression, Mexico's militant teachers union continues to strike and protest.

Andalusia Knoll Soloff

The Occupation in Chicago That’s Building a Community Free from Racist Policing and Prisons

For over two weeks, young, Black activists have camped out to protest police oppression and imagine a more just world.

Kali Robinson

James Baldwin’s Many Heirs

In the essay collection The Fire This Time, a new generation of Black writers keeps Baldwin's flame alight.

Erin Aubry Kaplan

Yale Worker Who Shattered Racist Window: ‘People are Tired of Being Victims’

Corey Menafee tells In These Times what brought him to the breaking point.

Michelle Chen

The RNC Shows the GOP’s Base Is Getting Smaller and Angrier

Conservatives, once a self-proclaimed "silent majority," have become a loud, defensive minority.

Theo Anderson

Will Pokémon Go Help Activism Evolve?

Some activist groups are using the new app to organize, while others are more skeptical.

Kate Aronoff

Michelle Alexander: Amidst Police Brutality, ‘There’s an Unfinished Revolution Waiting to be Won’

We need a profound shift in consciousness to challenge an entrenched system of racial and social control.

Michelle Alexander

After Alton Sterling and Philando Castile: How the System Punishes Protesters and Protects Police

Police in Minnesota and Louisiana have their own "bill of rights" that can shield officers from accountability for fatal shootings.

Adeshina Emmanuel

How Union Contracts Shield Police Departments from DOJ Reforms

Even when the federal government cracks down on police abuses, collective bargaining agreements often stymie reforms.

Adeshina Emmanuel

Thanks to #BlackLivesMatter, Prosecutors Who Bungle Police Shooting Cases Face Tough Election Fights

While recognizing the limits of electoral politics, the movement has ousted two prosecutors--Anita Alvarez and Tim McGinty--and has more in its sights

Jennifer Ball

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ New Comic Book ‘Black Panther #1’ Is ‘Black as Hell’

Comic book readers, writers and artists of color have long been excluded from the comic book world. That appears to be changing.

Darryl Holliday

To Save the Soul of the Democratic Party, Rahm Emanuel and Debbie Wasserman Schultz Must Go

If Hillary Clinton wants to convince us she is a progressive, she should call for their resignations.

Bill Moyers and Michael Winship

Four Years Since a Chicago Police Officer Killed Rekia Boyd, Justice Still Hasn’t Been Served

Rekia is not forgotten. Her spirit lives in current organizing and protests in Chicago and around the country.

Mariame Kaba

How Black Youth Helped Unseat Anita Alvarez and Transform the Face of Criminal Justice in Chicago

Black youth-led groups organizing for justice played a key role in Kim Foxx's win in the Cook County state's attorney race Tuesday night. And they're showing no signs of slowing down.

Miles Kampf-Lassin