The Wisconsin Idea

Culture

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

Feature

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

Feature

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 and Miski Noor

Feature

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 and Robyn C. Spencer

Viewpoint

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.

Kayla Reed

Viewpoint

The Future of the Movement for Black Lives

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

M Adams

Culture

Letter From the Year 2071

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

Barbara Ransby

Deeply Rooted

Naimah Thomas

Viewpoint

How the Potency of Social Wages Can Beat Back Neoliberalism

At the core of President Biden’s American Families Plan is an understanding that workers are paid too little in market wages and that government has a responsibility to change that.

Jack Metzgar