Subjects Archives: Inequality

Hammer & Hope asked Black organizers, academics, and writers to consider the state of Black politics five years after the 2020 uprisings and with the re-election of Donald Trump. Their responses, some written before Trump’s inauguration, offer ideas for where we go from here.

Columbia University has suspended 65 students for joining a pro-Palestine and anti-genocide protest inside the university’s main library on Wednesday, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Boots Riley, Kneecap, Residente and dozens of other artists have signed an open letter protesting the censorship of Kehlani after the NYC mayor’s office pushed for the cancellation of her pride concert.

Janine Jackson interviewed CODEPINK’s Danaka Katovich about attacks on activists for the May 2, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.

Intelligence agencies have been identifying individuals who align with U.S. strategic interests.

BAP and USOAN call on all anti-imperialist forces to join in active defense of Burkina Faso, demand the expulsion of AFRICOM from the continent, and ensure that no African nation suffers the fate that befell Libya in 2011.

DK Renton unpicks the legal background to the Supreme Court decision and argues for a strategy of mass action to turn back the tide of right wing authoritarianism.

The National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX) launched the 18th edition of the Cuban Days Against Homophobia and Transphobia on Monday.

Footage showed a heavy police presence as students clashed with security and barricaded themselves inside the library.

In a major blow to the Paris ’15 climate agreement, last year witnessed one more nail in the coffin of the celebrated agreement to slow down CO2emissions by 2030, as CO2, for the first time in modern history, enters the scientifically established danger zone.

Once and for all, we can lay to rest any notion that the Biden administration ever did anything to stop the Gaza genocide.

In a March 31st article published by the North Carolina Black Alliance, the Smithsonian leader revisits history during an HBCU stop at Shaw University; Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch said, “I will probably get fired at some point,” Bunch said. “But I think the goal would be to, sort of, fight the fight as long as you can.”

It seems as if the entire disgraceful history of U.S. illegality in Latin America is distilled in the saga of Kilmar Ábrego García: the man whose illegal deportation to El Salvador and imprisonment in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) has sparked outrage in the United States among human rights defenders and opponents of the Trump administration.

Throughout his life, Martin Luther King Jr spoke often and with vision about the nature of capitalism.

In a barrage of executive orders issued last week, including one late Monday afternoon targeting so-called “sanctuary” cities, President Donald Trump launched a naked attack on the democratic rights of immigrants and the working class as a whole.

Understanding media coverage of healthcare price battles.

The voice of millions of union members was shamefully missing this election.

The U.S. increases pressure on Burkina Faso through military propaganda, as Africans rise to protect the developing project.

After a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge was arrested on Friday for obstructing justice and harboring an individual, legal experts fear a potential chilling effect.

Janine Jackson interviewed Pregnancy Justice’s Karen Thompson about criminalizing pregnancy for the April 25, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.