July 2021 Volume 45, Issue 7

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Viewpoint

Introducing the Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover Barbara Ransby, Chinyere Tutashinda, Karissa Lewis, M Adams and Shanelle Matthews

Voter Suppression Is White Supremacy. It Must Be Stopped. Kayla Reed

The Future of the Movement for Black Lives M Adams

Feature

The Utopic, Love-Centered, “Liberation Oasis” on Chicago’s South Side Bettina Johnson

No, Minneapolis Did Not Defund the Police. But We’re Not Done Trying. Kandace Montgomery and Miski Noor

What Radical Black Women Can Teach Us All About Movement-Building Keisha N. Blain, Premilla Nadasen and Robyn C. Spencer

Dispatch

The GOP Has Declared a War on Protests Amara Enyia and Jamecia Gray

Culture

Cultural Organizing Gives Us a Roadmap to Liberation Mya Hunter and “Mama Nia” Wilson

Letter From the Year 2071 Barbara Ransby

Departments

The Meeting in 1998 That Kept Black Radicalism Alive In These Times Editors

The Utopic, Love-Centered, “Liberation Oasis” on Chicago’s South Side

Damon Williams, a co-founder of the #LetUsBreathe Collective, talks radical space-building.

Bettina Johnson

A mural stands in memoriam outside the Cup Foods convenience store in Minneapolis near where George Floyd was murdered by police May 25, 2020. The area is now known as George Floyd Square.

No, Minneapolis Did Not Defund the Police. But We’re Not Done Trying.

We understand that abolition is the long game. We’re in it for as long as it takes.

Kandace Montgomery

Miski Noor

What Radical Black Women Can Teach Us All About Movement-Building

Three historians lift up Black women journalists, organizers and activists who were critical to Black freedom movements but often erased from history.

Keisha N. Blain

Premilla Nadasen

Robyn C. Spencer

The Meeting in 1998 That Kept Black Radicalism Alive

Two decades ago, the Black Radical Congress convened to reclaim revolution and denounce reformism.

In These Times Editors

BLM protesters marched on streets

Introducing the Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Lessons on building collective power.

Barbara Ransby, Chinyere Tutashinda, Karissa Lewis, M Adams and Shanelle Matthews

Cultural Organizing Gives Us a Roadmap to Liberation

Co-directors of SpiritHouse, a Black women-led tribe in Durham, discuss the "life-saving" rituals and practices of freedom that ground their work towards liberation.

Mya Hunter and “Mama Nia” Wilson

Voter Suppression Is White Supremacy. It Must Be Stopped.

In recent years, down-ballot wins across the country have legalized marijuana, overturned Jim Crow-era election law, and hiked minimum wages. The GOP’s campaign to suppress the Black vote threatens wins like these.

Angela Harrelson, George Floyd’s aunt, speaks alongside family members at George Floyd Square on May 25, the anniversary of the day her nephew was murdered by police. Other members of Floyd’s family spent the day in Washington, D.C., meeting with President Joe Biden about the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. Demonstrators across the country marked the day with rallies, memorials and continued calls to fight racial injustice.

The Future of the Movement for Black Lives

Urban rebellions blossomed into mass mobilization upon George Floyd's death. Now what?

Letter From the Year 2071

A vision of where the Black freedom movement could take us.

The GOP Has Declared a War on Protests

Republican state legislators across 34 states have introduced more than 80 bills this year that criminalize protesting or protect those who harm protesters.

Amara Enyia and Jamecia Gray

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