To combat the sexism that stands between women and the presidency, we must encourage women to run for office and vote for the women we believe in, so that it becomes normal to see a woman on the campaign trail — and, hopefully, in the White House.
Institutional racism poses a serious danger to the health and safety of Black people. But the crowded and chaotic character of these protests poses a similarly lethal threat to the lives of immunosuppressed Americans.
With change and action, Juneteenth has the potential to be more than a symbol of injustice and cruelty. But if America does not address this bloody history, and supplants real action with merely a day off from work, our "sounds of rejoicing" will remain "empty and heartless."
A Harvard Open Data Project offers compelling evidence that BLM protests decrease police violence against Black individuals as well as the population at large.
The capitalist state harms human life, brutalizes communities, and reinforces oppressive hierarchies — forms of violence that make property damage pale in comparison.
Even before COVID-19, inequality in the United States was at its highest level in recent history. Now, according to three Harvard faculty, COVID-19 is likely to exacerbate existing inequality trends far into the future, especially in education, gender, and international development.
