February 14, 2025
Young Black activists Ericka and John Huggins arrived in Los Angeles around Thanksgiving 1967. They secured employment at an automobile factory in rural Los Angeles and moved into an inexpensive… READ MORE
February 5, 2025
The Dawn Settlement was one of the towns established at a Terminus of the Underground Railroad. Can you explain what is meant by that term and say a bit about… READ MORE
February 4, 2025
Your book immediately dives into some of the most alarming aspects of the digital age — namely, unchecked tracking of personal data by private companies and the government, which you… READ MORE
January 30, 2025
Mohammed R. Mhawish is a contributor to A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism, published by Monthly Review Press. This piece was originally published by New Lines… READ MORE
January 29, 2025
Originally Published by Inquest The deification of whiteness and property has long legitimized the containment of Black, Indigenous, and other racialized peoples. Today, more people than ever are finding the… READ MORE
January 27, 2025
“Sex work is work” has become a rallying cry among sex work activists for decades. What is the history of this phrase, and how has it changed the way we… READ MORE
January 23, 2025
Originally Published by Monthly Review Press Immigration to the U.S. southern border has long been subject to cold-hearted racial demagoguery. The Statue of Liberty may have welcomed some of the… READ MORE
January 22, 2025
Originally Published by Inquest Many women escaping violence in their home countries find themselves trapped in the formal violence of the asylum system. Guadalupe, a Salvadoran asylum seeker, was seated… READ MORE
December 19, 2024
In October of 2022, two environmental activists walked into room 43 of The National Gallery in London and threw tomato soup over Van Gogh鈥檚 1888 painting Sunflowers. As the yellow… READ MORE
November 26, 2024
Cheryl Troupe and Doris Jeanne MacKinnon are co-editors of M茅tis Matriarchs: Agents of Transition, published by University of Regina Press Metis women, generally of advanced age, hold a place of… READ MORE
How Ericka Huggins and the Black Panther Party Attempted to Liberate Black Women in America by Mary Frances Phillips