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Dispatch From a Missouri Execution: A Microcosm of the US Death Penalty Fight

The state-sponsored execution of 52-year-old Brian Dorsey on Tuesday evening in Bonne Terre, Missouri, marked the fifth such execution to take place...

10.04.2024 3

Frances Madeson

“They Don’t Want to Teach Black History”

David Carson/AP This story was originally published by Capital & Main. The protests and student walkoutshave stopped as an uneasy calm settles...

02.04.2024 10

Frances Madeson

Washington University Students Vote to Divest From Boeing Amid Gaza Genocide

At a nearly four-hour meeting on March 19, the student government at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, took formal action to address the...

23.03.2024 3

Frances Madeson

Cori Bush’s Gazan SOTU Guest: Congress Is “Complicit in the Murder of My Family”

Intimaa Salama, a 27-year-old dentist from Gaza, attended last week’s State of the Union address at the invitation of U.S. Rep. Cori Bush. Though...

13.03.2024 20

Frances Madeson

St. Louis’s Ceasefire Resolution Is a Testament to Black-Palestinian Solidarity

It’s been just shy of three months since Resolution 137 was first introduced by Rasheen Aldridge, the 30-year-old alderman from St. Louis’s 14th...

20.01.2024 9

Frances Madeson

Indigenous Groups in New Mexico Demand Action as Toxic Waste Spills Quadruple

It’s been two years since United States Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced the Honoring Chaco Initiative, a multiphase plan with the potential...

23.11.2023 2