U.S.
Sen. Roy Blunt confirms: GOP is the party of Jim Crow
June 28, 2021What we see today is a Republican Party that follows naturally from Nixon’s Southern Strategy.
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Mass D.C. rally speakers: Freedom Riders intensify voting rights drive
June 28, 2021Unfazed by Republicans trying to rob their right to vote, Freedom Riders descend on Washington D.C. and turn up the pressure on lawmakers.
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Infrastructure deal: ‘Concrete’ projects in, ‘human infrastructure’ not yet
June 25, 2021Retro-fitting schools, Green New Deal, child care, and paid family and medical leave have to wait for a reconciliation piece.
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Chicago rallies for community control, ‘first step in abolishing police terror’
June 25, 2021Community control is a strategic move, organizer Frank Chapman says. “It’s the first step to abolishing the whole system of police terror.”
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Before Stonewall: Queer liberation’s Communist Party roots
June 24, 2021The role of Harry Hay and Mattachine in theorizing gay identity was lost in the fog of anti-communism and the pressures for queer people to assimilate to the straight world.
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