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How Durban Succeeded
Richard Wright wrote that there was something "extra-political" about the 1955 Bandung Conference, the meeting where African and Asian anti-colonial freedom fighters turned heads of state created the...
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Parliamentary Committee Recommends Overhaul of British Drug Laws
A groundbreaking report released today by the Home Affairs Committee of the British House of Commons recommends a dramatic shift away from criminalization and an expanded public health approach to...
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Haunted by Katrina
Vladine Lee Bryan stared in disbelief at the digital photographs on her father's computer screen. Black mold had spread over the walls of her house in New Orleans' Seventh Ward. The high-water marks...
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Speaking of Racial Profiling: Part II
(Ed.'s Note: On April 3, WireTap covered student walkouts at San Francisco State University in support of Dr. Antwi Akom, who was arrested on campus grounds. The walkout participants argued that...
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Corporations Ain't People, So Why Do They Have the Power of Citizens?
This conversation is a compilation of talks and emails between two writer-activists. We welcome other voices in the conversation - we decided to share this because we want answers and dialogue in our...
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Can Black Women Lead on Rethinking Marriage?
One highlight of Election Day 2012: voters in Maryland, Washington and Maine deciding, with their ballots, whether people in same-sex relationships will be allowed to marry.Black voters in those...
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Marriage Isn't the Economic Panacea—So Stop Shaming Unmarried Moms
Instead of trotting out the tired Trojan horse of marriage as the cure-all for economic woes, let's focus on better policies for structural problems and stop attacking single mothers.This piece...
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Nannies, Housekeepers, Caregivers Had Virtually No Rights—But Key Victories...
Sheila Bapat's new book explores how domestic workers were excluded from labor protections.Last year, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, guaranteeing...
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America Seems to Be Observing Ferguson from Parallel Universes
Let’s hope for an investigation that surprises the skeptics.The radio host asked over the phone whether I was in Ferguson. “No,” I told him. “I’m watching the news unfold just like your listeners.” By...
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How New Orleans Has Lost 1/3 of its Black Population: Polices to Make People...
Activist Shana griffin explains the reality of Post-Katrina New Orleans.To mark the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina this August, a conservative member of the Chicago Tribune’s editorial board,...
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The Black Lives Matter Movement Is Most Visible on Twitter but Its True Home...
For the movement to survive, it needs to focus on work that doesn’t lend itself to 140 characters. In March 2012, nearly a month after George Zimmerman killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford,...
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