The murder of a 17-year-old in Florida one year ago shattered the idea that the U.S. had become, since the election of a Black president, a post-racial society.

Published in 1963, Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique was one of the first popular expressions of a growing rejection of women's second-class status.

Two residents of Oakland have some proposals for how to confront the seemingly unstoppable spike in crime and violence.

The 85th Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood had everything--glitz, glamour, sexism and a big dose of Islamophobia.

The French government says its military intervention in Mali is a last resort, but the plans were in the making for some time.

The typical media image of racist attackers is that they are "low class" hooligans--but Joe Hundley is far from the fringe.

Trotsky analyzed the rise of fascism in Germany and made the case for confronting it with the tactic of the "united front."

The death of Palestinian prisoner Arafat Jaradat while in Israeli custody has spurred a wave of protest throughout Palestine.

Israel is refusing to release a Palestinian political prisoner who is in critical condition after more than 210 days on hunger strike.

Schools and streets may carry the name of Frederick Douglass, yet the real story of his life and the struggles he helped lead remain little known.

C.L.R. James wrote a play about the leader of the Haitian revolution before penning his magnificent The Black Jacobins.

On February 23, Bradley Manning will have spent 1,000 days in a military prison for the "crime" of alerting the public to America's war atrocities.

Bradley Manning has exposed war crimes and helped end wars. He deserves our thanks, not more prison time.

Norway's state broadcaster has aired a program about a police informant who spied on socialists and anarchists for 10 years.

The murder case against Oscar Pistorius in South Africa is connected to a global epidemic of violence against women.

Indian feminists respond to the Harvard College Women's Center and its advice for how India should fight sexual assault.

Representatives of Russia's left are asking for support as Vladimir Putin and his regime prepare for a new show trial.

The death of unarmed African Americans at the hands of police and racists remains routine today--but a new movement is saying: "Enough."

Daniel Taylor has been sitting in an Illinois prison for more than half his life for a crime he couldn't have committed.

An NBA rookie has been on the sidelines most of the season in protest over his team's handling of his mental health issues.

If the voices of the oppressed are silenced in the name of "unity," the environmental movement will never bring about change.

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