The Next Civil Rights Movement?
The Black Lives Matter movement’s appeal to human rights has deep roots in the history of the black freedom struggle.
Winter 2025
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Booked: On Their Way to Freedom
An interview with Eric Foner on the underground railroad in New York, how history helps us to understand change, and why the left should talk more about freedom.
The Fall of the Confederate Flag
The fall of the Confederate flag in Columbia, South Carolina, has been over fifty years in the making. What does it mean for the state, for the South, and for the nation?
Introducing Our Summer Issue: American Movements
What are the visions and complaints, accomplishments and limits of the largest and most important movements on the left today?
Belabored Podcast #80: Class Struggle? There’s An App for That
What if you could run a workplace organizing campaign through your smartphone? We speak with Mark Zuckerman, president of The Century Foundation, about how unions can use digital platforms to empower workers. Plus: the latest on Uber, Verizon, the TPP, and an ice-cream labor revolt.
Black Lives Matter in South Carolina
South Carolina has always been a battleground of larger, national campaigns for racial justice.
Israel’s #BlackLivesMatter Moment?
Ethiopian-Israelis face systematic discrimination and violence at the hands of the police. But comparisons to #BlackLivesMatter in the United States do not capture the complexities of their situation.
Booked #4: What Did Race Mean to W.E.B. Du Bois?
Tim Shenk talked with Kwame Anthony Appiah, author of Lines of Descent: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity, about how Du Bois’s experiences as a black American shaped his theories of race, and how his theories relate to politics then and now.
Border City Blues
It is no coincidence that the starkest reactions to police violence—from Ferguson to Baltimore—have flared in cities strung along the Mason-Dixon Line.
Liberal Punishment
Naomi Murakawa’s remarkable book The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America shows how, since the 1940s, liberals have provided legitimacy for the prison state.
American Violence from Baltimore to Baghdad
This article originally appeared at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. The choice of weapons is important because it radically affects what we are, and at stake in that choice is the risk of losing our soul. —Grégoire Chamayou I was reading …
Starbucks Wants To Talk About Race. But Does It Want to Talk About Racism?
According to Fortune magazine, Starbucks will “encourage baristas to discuss race relations with customers”. Starbucks’ media page says that a series of “racially charged tragedies” sparked the initiative “Race Together”. The initiative comes with stickers: [Race Together] may also engage customers in conversation …
How Racism Became Policy in Ferguson
The Justice Department report offers a glimpse of the systematically oppressive and petty policing in Ferguson. But in order to fully understand how racism became policy in the St. Louis suburbs, we need to look at the history of suburban development itself.
Brooklyn Tenants Revolt
The problems of Brooklyn’s gentrifying neighborhoods won’t be solved by a housing-market version of “ethical consumption.” It’s going to take collective action. And a new tenant movement is leading the way.
#BlackLivesMatter: An Online Roundtable with Alicia Garza, Dante Barry, and Darsheel Kaur
The Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday is one of the few in the United States that invites us to strike a reflective pose. Each year communities volunteer in massive service projects, children don their Sunday best and memorize great works of …
