Dave Zirin on writing the life of Howard Zinn–and why his legacy points the way forward at the country’s semiquincentennial.

Over the past fifteen years of observing tech development, I’ve found that terms I once used like “cyber-utopianism,” “Internet-centrism,” and “techno-solutionism” fail to fully capture Big Tech’s ...

Cedric Robinson was fond of quoting his friend and colleague Otis Madison: “The purpose of racism is to control the behavior of white people, not Black people. For Blacks, guns and tanks are ...

Editors’ Note: On December 17, 2020, the New England Journal of Medicine published a research letter, “Racial Bias in Pulse Oximetry Measurement,” prompted by this essay. Read the medical study here ...

Police officers often use the charge of “resisting arrest” to criminalize black people who try to defend themselves from brutal, punitive, and often illegal police actions. They also do so to justify ...

Melvin Rogers is Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brown University. His latest book is The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African ...

Eleven years ago, the mathematician Stefaan Vaes, upon receiving the prestigious Francqui Prize for young scientists from the hands of Belgium’s Queen Mathilde, took the opportunity to tell Her ...

Older people, we often hear, have too much power. They are hoarding homes, money, and jobs to the detriment of younger people who can’t get their lives started. They are hoarding political power as ...

A week after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act (VRA), the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement, the Watts rebellion broke out in Los Angeles. The riots began on ...

Calls to abolish ICE are as old as the agency itself. When it was established in 2003 by President George W. Bush with bipartisan support, ICE was meant to serve as the domestic arm of the U.S.-led ...

Robin D. G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair of U.S. History at UCLA and a contributing editor at Boston Review. His many books include Freedom Dreams: The Black ...

Listen to a reading of this essay, courtesy of curio.io: On the afternoon of April 4, 1968, James Baldwin was relaxing by the pool with actor Billy Dee Williams in a rented house in Palm Springs.