Tag: 2020 protests

As Slaveholder Statues Come Down, America’s Birthday Party Gets Weird

The nation is grappling with a racist past and present — so which monuments to old white men should get to stay?

Black Exotic Dancers Demand Better Treatment With ‘Stripper Strike’

Dancers are sick of the industry's racist, outdated practices — now, a nationwide movement has come together to change that

Protesters Reject De Blasio’s NYPD Budget, Continue to Occupy City Hall

A semiautonomous zone has sprung up in downtown Manhattan, just blocks from the site of Occupy Wall Street — but this time, the demands are more concrete

Queer Liberation March for Black Lives and Against Police Brutality.

Why the Fireworks Conspiracy Theories Are So Damn Believable

Many are convinced that the government is handing out fireworks to cause chaos — but the truth behind the recent craze might be more complicated

On TikTok, Cops Are Still Trying to Be the Good Guys

Police on TikTok want to "humanize the badge" — but as the Black Lives Matter movement accelerates, staying apolitical is becoming impossible

Stevie Wonder: ‘Systemic Racism Can Have an Ending. Police Brutality Can Have an Ending’

"To those who say they care, move more than your mouth," musician says

Oakland Marchers for Juneteenth 2020: Photographs by Brandon Ruffin

Seattle’s Autonomous Zone Is Not What You’ve Been Told

Some call it CHOP, some call it CHAZ, and no one knows quite what it is. But one thing is clear in a blocks-large swath of Capitol Hill: a community is taking shape

The Violence That Shaped Our Nation

White America is finally learning. Black America could never forget