One of the legacies of Michael Brown's killing, two years ago this week, was the exposure of police departments like Ferguson, Missouri's, that have a system for profiting from fines and fees for low-level infractions that targets African-Americans dis...

The Movement for Black Lives has never relied on corporate media to get their message out. But the coalition's newly released policy platform does provide an opportunity for journalists—sometimes given to ponder what black activists are for—to engage t...

The disability community is routinely marginalized in the media, making it hard to address the frequency with which law enforcement's use of force involves people with disabilities.

Few ideas are as hard-wired into current corporate media as the notion that so-called "free trade" agreements of the sort we have are best for everyone. Given that the deals are not primarily about trade, and that what freedom they entail accrues to co...

Media insist there is "nationwide soul-searching" going on on the problem of racist police brutality. Certainly there is pain and anger, but when it comes time to talk about how to change things, corporate media don't seem to have a great deal to say.

Some might say the recent attacks claimed by ISIS in Baghdad, in Istanbul and in Medina are proof that the US should invest more in the so-called "War on Terror." What will it take to turn the conversation away from the idea of bombing our way to peace...

UK politics are up in the air in the wake of a referendum calling for Britain to leave the European Union. The so-called Brexit campaign is drawing comparisons to that of Donald Trump, due to the nativism and racism that marked it,

The defendant in Utah v. Strief is white, but the suspicionless stops at the case's heart disproportionately affect black and brown and poor people, marginalized in media as elsewhere.

While corporate media talked about "radical Islam," others worked to maintain focus on the victims, with things like a short video from the group Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement, featuring people talking about the killings and other violence t...

the overuse and abuse of powerful drugs like oxycodone is driving what the Centers for Disease Control says is an epidemic in this country, with some 16,000 overdose deaths from prescription opioids a year.