It’s morning again in America. Federal agents snatch students off the streets. The White House boasts of banishing hundreds of people to a Salvadoran prison. Head Start and domestic violence shelters await the chopping block. The Trump administration is repurposing antiracism into a grenade and lobbing it at the remnants of the welfare state. But regular people are providing the varied, creative, noncooperative opposition to the neo-fascist administrative takeover that we need.
Across the world, the right wing is blowing up everything and incinerating the planet.
Altadena’s vision of regeneration is the antidote to the political conflagration that threatens us all.
Hammer & Hope asked Black organizers, academics, and writers to consider the state of Black politics five years after the 2020 uprisings and with the re-election of Donald Trump. Their responses, some written before Trump’s inauguration, offer ideas for where we go from here.
“As someone who’s from the African continent and knows what colonialism has done to the continent, I see this as a crystal-clear example.”
The end of an era for Black Hollywood.
A former political prisoner in Buffalo seeks to clear her name so she can finally "feel free."
As federal unions engage in lengthy legal battles, the growing Federal Unionists Network has provided a fulcrum for rank-and-file members who don’t want to wait to resist.
On both sides of the Atlantic, a belligerent sense of whiteness and national identity, beset by economic insecurity, is winning elections.
I use TikTok to spread big leftist ideas. No matter what tool I use, I’m determined to channel our energy toward world-making.
Sara Gómez and other Black filmmakers challenged the colorblind vision of a newly socialist nation.
Three young Afro-Brazilian intellectuals explore how Queen Bey became an icon on the left, despite her class politics.
It needs to tap into our emotional life in ways that will link us to material struggles rather than distract us from them.
After seeing the destruction of the Eaton and Palisades fires, a photographer contemplates whether her version of Los Angeles is ending.
Grassroots organizations condemn Black elites in the African National Congress for imposing the law on poor people while ignoring their calls for communal land ownership.
A poem.
By recovering the voices of women and recentering Brazil in the Atlantic slave trade, a new book shows how both violence and resistance were essential to the history of slavery in the Americas.
Prison food has become a tool of carceral control.