by Jenifer Fernandez Ancona and Samantha Lee Robles Democrats will lose the White House again in 2020 if they fail to inspire and mobilize the new rising political majority of young people, women, and people of color. Trump and his fellow Republicans know this. We fear establishment Democrats may not.
Becoming a mother solidified my passion for activism. From the maternal health challenges that plagued the births of both of my children to the wide scale manifestations of bias from which I hope to protect them, activism seemed like an unavoidable consequence of mothering while Black. My family’s journey
Farmworkers do life-sustaining work every single day. There are 2 to 3 million farmworkers who labor on farms, packing the sheds and greenhouses that dot the landscape of rural America. An estimated 900,000 of these workers are women. They harvest, pick, process, and pack the fruits and vegetables that
As the coronavirus pandemic escalates and the federal government fails to take meaningful, coordinated action to arrest the spread, the political press has latched onto a frustratingly flippant word to describe the Trump administration’s catastrophic failure of a response: “bungled.” In The Washington Post, one headline points out Trump’
by Heron Greenesmith, Esq. With so many schools closed across the country and so many parents working from home to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus, families are desperate for resources. In response, homeschool organizations like the conservative evangelical-affiliated Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) are ramping up their
Since the earliest days in the history of the United States and up through the present, Black women have been at the forefront of shaping and reshaping our nation into a more equitable, more just, and more inclusive democracy. Nowhere is that more true than in the South. Even while
In November 2019, with Indigenous supporters by his side, President Donald Trump signed an executive order touted as a solution to the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and people. One of the objectives assigned to the task force was to “develop model protocols and procedures to apply
In 1968, a government study called the Kerner Report warned that the media was failing to report on the underlying problems of race relations in the United States. Five decades later, we find ourselves in the midst of another media crisis with grave consequences for our fragile democracy: Major media
For so long, debates about climate policy have been rooted in questioning people’s individual choices. What kind of lightbulb should we buy? Is it time to go vegan? Is this really the most eco-friendly car on the market? But as the climate crisis rose to the forefront of public
Prisons have always placed incarcerated folks’ rights at the bottom of their priorities. Recently, prison officials have come under fire for banning books centering Black issues from entering the hands of those behind bars. In January, Bryan Stevenson’s “Just Mercy“—his 2015 book about an Alabama lawyer’s crusade
The Nevada Democratic Caucus is days away, on Saturday. And despite what you may have read and heard, the election results in Iowa and New Hampshire are piss-poor indicators of which candidate will seize momentum and claim Nevada’s 36 pledged delegates. For a year now, campaigns, media, and donors
British activist and musician Blythe Pepino coined the term “birth strike” in early 2019 to describe pledges people make to not to have children until significant climate justice is achieved. She says such decisions are a “radical acknowledgment” of the threat that climate change poses to our futures. She does
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