The Problem Threatening the Entire American Middle Class
As the U.S. becomes more diverse, the shocking racial wealth divide is no longer a challenge for disenfranchised minorities alone.
Poll: Blacks Think Civil Rights Goals Not Achieved
Fifty years after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., only 1 in 10 African-Americans think the U.S. has achieved the goals of the civil rights movement he led.
Legalizing Tyranny
The U.S. judicial system routinely provides unfair trials and coerces defendants—often poor people of color, and often innocent—into accepting plea deals that call for brutally long sentences.
First Amendment, Not the Second, Is How We Secure Liberty
In the United States, why do we limit free speech and protest for minorities more than we limit guns?
Trump, GOP Fuel Fantasies of White Victimhood
It’s time to pursue economic justice for all and stamp out the notion that only people of color are perpetrators of violence.
Why 'When We Rise' Is Historic
The ABC miniseries, which aired earlier this year, tells the story of the “gay revolution” with an accuracy and complexity that has rarely been attempted—or achieved.
U.K. Violence After the Brexit Vote Might Hold Lessons for America
A divisive vote, with jobs and immigrants the most combustible issues, leaving many anxious about intolerance and the violence that can stem from it. Sound familiar?
Samantha Bee: Democrats, Don't Let Panic Make You Abandon Principles or the People Who Voted for You
The "Full Frontal" host thinks that the Democratic Party should "invite working-class white people to the party," but it shouldn't necessarily try to do so by following the Republican Party's lead.
Meet the Inspiring Activists at the Head of the Women's March on Washington
"Three of the four co-chairs represent the most targeted groups by the [coming] administration," Linda Sarsour told The Huffington Post. Carmen Perez is Mexican-American, Sansour is Muslim American and Tamika Mallory is African-American.
John Oliver: America's Increasingly Segregated Schools Are 'Very Rarely Equal in Any Way' (Video)
Public schools are more segregated than they have been for more than 40 years, but the "Last Week Tonight" host argues this isn't a case of resegregation. It turns out cities like New York "never really bothered integrating in the first place."
