From the Great Society to the Debt Trap
The most financially vulnerable Americans are falling into the Debt Trap. By Larry Checco Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson launched his Great Society, a set of domestic programs...
Racial Equality
Civil War Rages On for Black America
By righting a 150-year-old wrong, re-enactors aim to help remedy long untreated ills at the root of today’s #BlackLivesMatter movement. Hundreds of African-American men marched to the White House this...
5 Ways Being Poor is a Crime
New report details how being poor in America has become a crime. By Terrell Jermaine Starr This piece originally appeared on Alternet.org. [caption id="attachment_8927" align="alignright" width="300"] Municipalities are fining and...
How Black Women Can Rescue Labor
A new report argues that black women leaders can save the dwindling union movement.
The Language of the Unheard
The protesters in Baltimore need to be heard. Are we listening? After Trayvon, Michael, Eric, John, Tamir, Walter, and countless others, shouldn’t all Americans finally learn something from the death...
How A Broken Tail Light Leads to Death
So now we know: A broken tail light can get you killed in America. By Karen Dolan The situation that led to the alleged murder of Walter L. Scott by...
Fight for $15 Reaches New Heights
The Fight for $15 campaign has grown into a broad-based social movement. This past Wednesday, tens of thousands of low-wage workers in more than 200 cities across the U.S. demonstrated...
The War on (Poor) Women
Attacks on women's reproductive health are ultimately a war on poor women. By Claire Goldstene [caption id="attachment_8730" align="alignright" width="300"] Statewide campaigns to end abortion have led to shutting down women's...
Segregation’s Insidious New Face
Racial segregation dominated the American residential landscape for generations. We can’t afford, suggests the research of Stanford’s Sean Reardon, to let economic segregation have anywhere near as long a run....