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from January 15, 2017 at 04:57AM http://bit.ly/2iZciak Click here for reuse options! Communities of color in Chicago meticulously documented the CPD’s pattern of racist violence. In a September 2014 report prepared for the United Nations Committee...

Resistance to populist bigotry doesn’t operate on a four-year cycle. I named my son, who was born just days before the election, after Marcus Garvey, a West Indian revolutionary most celebrated for leading the “Back to Africa” movement in the 1920s...

Click here for reuse options! An appreciation of the legendary political activist. This article first appeared in The American Prospect. In 2013, Tom Hayden—who died on Sunday at 76 from complications related to a stroke he suffered a year-and-a-half...

On Black Friday, 2014, the biggest shopping day of the year, hundreds of protesters marched to Wicker Park, a trendy neighborhood on Chicago’s northwest side. It was the third stop in a day-long march from one commercial district to the next: starting...

Beginning in the 1930s, the LAPD pioneered the use of stop-and-search policing whereby officers flooded an area after a reported crime to question persons found on the street. This was the anti-Friday dragnet — indiscriminate, racist, and the reality...