Politics & Democracy

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What would ‘transitional justice’ look like in the United States?

Something must happen after a civil war; the fall of dictatorship; the end of genocide. People who fought and killed one another must learn to live together again. Along with the buildings and the homes, civil society must be rebuilt.  Millions of people alive today have lived through this sort

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7 Min
By: Jack Herrera

How Los Angeles base builders plan to halt Mayor Eric Garcetti’s race to the White House

On Nov. 24, Black Lives Matter supporters and Dr. Melina Abdullah, co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter, gathered outside LA Mayor Eric Garcetti’s mansion. They announced they will be there every day until either President-elect Joe Biden decides not to appoint the mayor

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5 Min
By: Lisa Kwon

This election, young voters believed in more

This month, we watched the nation rejoice at the end of the Trump presidency and its four-year war on the health and rights of marginalized people. But even before the election was officially called, exit polls began to paint a clear image: Young people of color played a powerful

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3 Min
By: Kimberly Inez McGuire

Women of color delivered Biden his victory. Now he needs to deliver for them.

TV pundits and political operatives are clamoring to tell the story of what happened in the 2020 election. What is the first draft of their retelling of history? Massive voter turnout, the suburban shift away from President Donald Trump, and the enduring power of white voters are all emerging storylines.

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4 Min
By: Alejandra Y. Castillo

A progressive sprout of Filipino America grows in the heartland

Filipinos have historically immigrated in droves to the West and East coasts, building formidable immigrant communities and earning a name for themselves as the second-largest Asian group in America. However, as the new Biden administration takes shape, it’s in midwestern states like Ohio where an unexpected progressive shift

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5 Min
By: Maki Somosot

What about the Black Latinx vote?

Within hours of polls closing on the East Coast on the final day of the election cycle this year, newscasters had already begun discussing “the Latinx vote.” Early results out of Miami had shown a surprising turnout for Donald Trump, extinguishing Joe Biden’s hopes of winning Florida. Within hours,

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4 Min
By: Jack Herrera

Marginalized communities react to Biden’s agenda for his first 100 days

President-elect Joe Biden has some ambitious plans for his first 100 days in office, and unlike the agendas of other presidents, it prioritizes several issues that aim to help communities of color, both directly and indirectly. Biden has pledged to make several bold, sweeping actions once he steps into

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6 Min
By: Carolyn Copeland

Universal preschool just passed in my county. Here’s how it’ll benefit Black and brown families

For BIPOC communities, the overwhelming feeling for many in this year’s general election has been that the only option we have is to settle for something better than Trump. However, there have been many small glimpses of hope to be found amongst all of this chaos. Though they’ve

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4 Min
By: Olivia Pace

California ‘bans the box,’ protecting formerly incarcerated people in the college admissions process

Keisha Murphy is on the frontlines of fighting COVID-19 as a registered nurse based in San Bernardino County, California. While the pandemic poses new challenges to her important work, the road to her nursing career was also riddled with obstacles for one reason: Murphy’s prior felony conviction. Murphy

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8 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

The ‘Latinx vote’ might not really exist, but Biden still lost it

If you read any new coverage of Florida during an election year, going back decades, you’re likely to hear some version of the same fact: Cubans in Miami lean conservative. It’s part of the basic ethnic logic that gets regurgitated by the media: The idea is that in

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4 Min
By: Jack Herrera

Kamala Harris is our new VP, and that holds different meanings for people

On Jan. 20, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will make history as the nation’s first ever woman of color to be sworn into the second-highest office in the land. The history behind Harris’ election has been momentarily eclipsed by ballot count delays, a days-long period of intense

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7 Min
By: Carolyn Copeland

This election, the system didn’t work—our people did

Political genius resides within communities of color. As the results of a narrowly won presidential election come into focus, and with them a fundamentally changed electoral map, it’s an inescapable fact that if the United States ever finds its way to a post-Trump, post-white supremacy era, it

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4 Min
By: Prism Team

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