Pro-Choice Catholics Plaster March for Life With Posters
Thousands of people, including youth, protested against safe and legal abortion in Washington, D.C., last week for the annual “March for Life.” The gatherings have generally attracted right-wing...
View ArticleJewish Students Organize “Shabbat for Ceasefire”
On Friday, Feb. 2, 2024, Jewish students on more than a dozen college campuses across the United States organized “Shabbat for Ceasefire” events to sing, pray, and perform their Shabbat tradition to...
View ArticleExposing Israel’s Attempted Pinkwashing of Genocide
The state of Israel’s official Twitter account recently posted photos of a gay Israel Defense Forces soldier holding a rainbow pride flag atop the rubble in Gaza as “a message of hope to the people of...
View ArticleNew Weight Loss Drugs Aren’t a Magic Pill
A new class of weight-loss drugs has taken the United States by storm, and they are different from previous medications in that they seem to work. The drugs, known by their pharmaceutical brand names...
View ArticleCan Trump Be on the Ballot?
On Feb. 8, 2024, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Trump v. Anderson in response to the former president’s appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision banning him from that...
View ArticleCentering the Dignity of L.A.’s Unhoused
California’s recent rainstorms, triggered by an “atmospheric river,” dumped record-breaking amounts of rainfall onto the West Coast, imperiling the lives of the unhoused. In Los Angeles, which has one...
View ArticleFamily Planning in a Changing Climate
The decision to have a child is a personal one yet is sometimes seen as politically fraught in a time of climate change. Meghan Elizabeth Kallman and Josephine Ferorelli, who run an organization...
View ArticleIs Biden Determined to Lose the Election Over Israel?
President Joe Biden flew to Los Angeles this week to meet with mega donor Haim Saban for an election-campaign fundraising event. Biden’s meeting with an ardent backer of Israel in the middle of...
View ArticleWhy Reparations Are a 2024 Election Issue
As the 2024 presidential election season is in full swing and states across the nation are starting to hold their primaries, abortion access and the Israeli genocide in Gaza are front and center. But...
View ArticleNew York Considers a Social Housing Bill
New York’s state assembly is considering a new bill proposing the creation of a Social Housing Development Authority to ease the state’s housing crisis. The idea of “social housing” is not new, but it...
View ArticleBecoming “Reparationists”
Social movements often consist of activists who have adopted a particular identity to help them articulate their personal connection to a cause. Can the same happen for the movement for reparations?...
View ArticleFrom TV to TikTok: Reparations on Screen
Mainstream cultural values are strongly influenced by film, television, and, more recently, social media. Pop culture shapes our worldview, making some things acceptable and others anathema. When it...
View ArticleHow Black Youth Benefit from Dedicated Spaces
The racial wealth gap in the United States has been a persistent feature of the national economy, largely because there was never proper compensation paid to Black people for historic and contemporary...
View ArticleInvestigative Report Undermines Israel’s Mass Rape Claims
In the weeks after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, there were numerous claims of mass rape by Hamas soldiers of Israeli women. In November 2023, the group Physicians for Human Rights Israel...
View ArticleWill California Take Reparations to the Finish Line?
The state of California has gone further than any other state in examining the issue of reparations for Black people and making them reality. A state-appointed reparations task force worked for years...
View ArticleHow Towns and Cities Are Implementing Reparations
For decades, the United States Congress has delayed acting on the late Rep. John Conyers’ reparations bill, H.R. 40. In the absence of federal action, local efforts to achieve reparations have had...
View ArticleWill Washington’s Police Accountability Measure Work?
A police accountability initiative in the state of Washington is facing a test of its effectiveness. Initiative 940, the first of its kind in the nation, strips law enforcement of “qualified...
View Article“Connections,” From Digital Revolutions to Queer Church
A new issue of YES! Magazine has just hit newsstands and mailboxes all over the nation. The Spring 2024 issue is themed around “Connections,” a deeply relevant idea at a time when more people are...
View ArticleBeyond Reparations for Tulsa’s Black Wall Street
More than 100 years ago, a violent white mob destroyed the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, killing hundreds of people and destroying a prosperous community, including a district known as...
View ArticleWill SCOTUS Revoke Abortion Pill Access?
On March 26, the United States Supreme Court heard arguments in a case against the sale of medication abortion, a drug named mifepristone. Just weeks earlier, drug stores such as Walgreens and CVS...
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