Juneteenth Demands a Tax and Care System That Liberates Black Women

Juneteenth is about freedom, and the tax system should be built to enact that freedom materially by rewarding care, housing, labor, and public goods, not just wealth. Our taxes should finance a care infrastructure that is reparative of past and present inequalities.

Two Declarations, One Democracy: On Freedom, Exclusion, and the American Project

For generations, we have treated racism as though it exists in opposition to the project of American democracy rather than within it. Yet the persistence of racial inequality reveals that American democracy has historically relied upon it to hold the majority white nation together.

A Crushed 1891 Strike by Black Farmer Cooperatives Holds Keys to Economic Justice Today

As the United States marks 250 years of its founding promises, the Colored Farmers' National Alliance and Cooperative Union deserves to be part of that reckoning as evidence of what becomes possible when people decide to build cooperative power from the ground up.

When Knowledge Is Not Enough: On Exercising Your Rights

It can be impossible to recite anything—let alone your rights—in the face of authority, chaos, and violence. What we need to do now is plan for action, plan for how we will act and connect with our communities amid fear, confusion, and the breaching of normalcy and of our rights.

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Nostalgia Ain’t What It Used To Be. . . Now It’s Racist

How appropriate she has black-tinted glasses rather than pink- or rose-tinted ones. 1,737 words Proust had his madeleine. I had my blancmange. Browsing online lately, I came across an infant joke-collection I had once owned as a child. Called The Pink and Wobbly Joke-Book, and sporting a cartoon image of a large strawberry blancmange with […]

Be Less WEIRD: What US Funders Can Learn from Global Majority Philanthropic Practice

US philanthropy is based on being WEIRD: Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. Lessons from the philanthropic practices of Global Majority and Indigenous populations are crucial for tackling some of philanthropy’s—and the world’s—most pressing issues.

Riding out with Mac & Matteo

Warm shoulder — Cycling around London with his cat on his shoulder, balaclava-donning youth worker Mac is challenging society’s perceptions of people who look and dress like him. Molly Lipson chats to him about trauma, fatherhood and using his platform as a feline influencer for good.

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