"Social Justice" Blogs & Blog Posts

When Karen Smith was sworn in as the newly elected president of Philadelphia's Central Bucks school board on Monday night, she placed her left hand on a stack of frequently banned books instead of a Holy Bible. Smith was first elected to the boar...

The audacity of privilege knows no bounds. This week, Trump's least intellectually gifted son appeared on a religious zealot's podcast and compared his father's legal issues to the systemic racism and legal injustices faced by Black people for centur...

Indigenous Americans were almost eradicated. Black people were enslaved. Asians are mistreated. Millions still want to “build a wall.” People of color have been oppressed for centuries, and each group has its own plight. But misogyny has stood th...

The NAACP, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), and Equality Florida have all issued warnings against visiting Florida. According to the NAACP's advisory released over the weekend, the state is "openly hostile toward African American...

Well, this is super cool. A group of Chicagoans have come together to raise money to help provide better air quality in arts and music venues throughout Chicago. The Clean Air Club describes their work: We believe that focusing on...

At the beginning, and throughout the first two years of the ongoing, yet to be over, COVID-19 pandemic, ideas pioneered by disability justice organizations were finally given credence by larger swaths of the population. This is no longer the case. Gi...

The Black Panther Party's Franklin Lynch Peoples' Free Health Center in Boston, ca. 1970 Men with guns. Armed community self-defense. Confrontations with predatory police departments. For many people, until you know differently, these are the domi...