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Why Activists Matter to Constitutional Change

Beyond textual loopholes: the case of the Thirteenth Amendment

February 2, 2022 • by Sam Klug

n the immediate aftermath of the Thirteenth Amendment’s passage, African American activists, Reconstruction legislators, and the formerly enslaved initially hoped it would be broadly applied. ...

Why Activists Matter to Constitutional Change

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The Power of Black Feminist Pragmatism

Why the Black Lives Matter movement is the best alternative to the anti-democratic, white supremacist, authoritarian capture of the United States

January 20, 2022 • by Deva Woodly

The Black Lives Matter movement is not a “new social movement” that focuses on cultural transformation while eschewing policy intervention, nor is it fashioned after “old style,” “traditional” social movements that attempt to move policy while deemphasizing the need for deep changes in public understandings of the problems facing polities ...

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On Coming to Terms

What form should a “post #BlackLivesMatter” movement take?

January 19, 2022 • by Christopher Paul Harris

BlackLivesMatter” world, it won’t be one where the current constellation of movement organizations simply disappear or become ineffective in their attempts to bring Black people closer to liberation....

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Reckoning with Deva Woodly’s Reckoning

What kind of coalition must the Left forge in order to defeat Trumpism and whatever comes after it?

January 18, 2022 • by Sidney Tarrow

Black Lives Matter was not born in the streets, even if it sometimes moved there following the police murder of Michael Brown in 2014, and again after the killing of George Floyd in 2020. But the movement, after these intense episodes of protest and direct action has not stayed in ...

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The Promise of Black Lives Matter

How to sustain a popular movement that can dismantle structural racism in America

January 18, 2022 • by Maneesh Arora

How can BLM activists and other allied individuals and organizations capitalize on the outrage they are precipitating by bringing first-time protesters into the fold? Moreover, how can they help people who are concerned about racial inequality—motivated to do something about it and already thinking structurally—to also act structurally? ...

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We Are a Reckoning

Deva Woodly introduces her new book, Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements

January 17, 2022 • by Deva Woodly

This nation is mine. Mine to claim. Mine to hold to account. Mine to participate in reshaping. So I tell an American story because it is my story to tell....

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Photo Essay: Abortion Protests at the Supreme Court

Pro-choicers were out-numbered, out-signed, and out-shouted by pro-lifers

December 6, 2021 • by Jo Freeman

Several thousand people rallied in front of the Supreme Court on the morning of December 1. Inside, the Court heard oral argument in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a Mississippi case which would limit all abortions to no later than 15 weeks. Long before oral arguments started, the pro-lifers ...

Photo Essay: Abortion Protests at the Supreme Court

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White House Rally for Voting Rights

A photo essay

November 23, 2021 • by Jo Freeman

On November 17, roughly 200 people were arrested in front of the White House at a rally for Voting Rights. This was the fifth action in a series of DC protests by a coalition of groups that are pushing for the John Lewis Voting Rights Bill to become law. These groups ...

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Statement about Kyle Rittenhouse Verdict

A letter from the president of The New School

November 22, 2021 • by Dwight A. McBride

Dear New School students and colleagues, I want to take a moment to respond to the verdict that was delivered last Friday afternoon in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, wherein Mr. Rittenhouse was found to be not guilty on all counts. I have heard from many individuals in The New School community ...

Statement about Kyle Rittenhouse Verdict

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Shout Out at the Supreme Court over Abortion

A photo essay

November 2, 2021 • by Jo Freeman

Pro-choicers and pro-lifers conducted a non-violent shoving match in front of the Supreme Court, while inside the Court prepared to hear oral argument in the Texas abortion ban. For the most part, only words were used. As is common when there are opposing groups, the U.S. Capitol Police allowed separate ...

Shout Out at the Supreme Court over Abortion

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A Chronicler of Human Complexity

Swedish magazine Ord&Bild asks three James Baldwin scholars why his writing is so resonant today

October 27, 2021 • by Douglas Field, Justin A. Joyce and Cora Kaplan

James Baldwin has become the most cited literary figure in the Black Lives Matter movement. But his writing was never political in the narrow sense. So what makes Baldwin relevant today? On complex answers to a simple question. Ord&Bild: The first question is straightforward: what makes the work of James Baldwin relevant ...

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New Yorkers March for Abortion Justice

A photo essay

October 6, 2021 • by Jo Freeman

Women’s Marches are becoming an annual event. The first one in 2017 was to express outrage at pussy grabber Trump’s election. Subsequent ones have varied in substance and style. They have shifted from January to October – which is is a better month for outdoor protest. This year, several hundred ...