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Mavis Staples performs during the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass music festival at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024 (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Mavis Staples' gospel of resistance

Chauncey DeVega
Pam Bondi, former Florida Attorney General, speaks during a press conference at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Trump will target all Americans' rights

Chauncey DeVega
A protester holds a placard with the colours of the trans pride flag in support of a trans rights during the demonstration. (Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Dems' shameful retreat on trans rights

David Masciotra
Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Decades of civil rights advancement gone

Peter Phillips
President Donald Trump speaks to members of the press after signing two executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump's opening assault on diversity

Tatyana Tandanpolie
US President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

No one in MAGA cares about "merit"

Amanda Marcotte
Kamala Harris | US Supreme Court (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How Kamala can fight SCOTUS — and win

Paul Rosenberg
Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Antonin Scalia within a John Trumbell painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

"Originalism": White supremacy in robes

Paul Rosenberg
André Holland in "The Big Cigar" (Apple TV+)

Hollywood, a fake film & Huey P. Newton

Nardos Haile
Beyoncé accepts the Innovator Award onstage during the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards at Dolby Theatre on April 01, 2024 in Hollywood, California. (Amy Sussman/Getty Images)

What Beyoncé's "Blackbird" cover means

Nardos Haile
Killer Mike on "The View" (ABC/Lou Rocco)

"All my heroes have been in handcuffs"

Nardos Haile
Joy-Ann Reid (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Joy Reid on Trump and the "two Americas"

Dean Obeidallah
District Attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, Fani Willis (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why this is happening in Atlanta

Christopher Sellers
Schoolchildren and students demonstrated in the streets of Birmingham, Alabama, on May, 02, 1963, during a civil disobedience campaign to protest against racial segregation. (AFP via Getty Images)

America's racial history: Truth matters

Caleb Elfenbein
Participants march and chant slogans at a rally protesting the Supreme Court's ruling against affirmative action on Harvard University Campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the United States, on July 1, 2023. (Ziyu Julian Zhu/Xinhua via Getty Images)

The next campus battle: Legacy admission

Chauncey DeVega
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to a crowd during a campaign event on July 1, 2023 in Pickens, South Carolina. The former president faces a growing list of primary challengers in the Republican Party. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

Trump's "Agenda 47" is no joke

Chauncey DeVega
Clarence Thomas and John Roberts (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

SCOTUS mission: Make US in GOP's image

Chauncey DeVega
Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's terrifying emails offer a clue

Chauncey DeVega
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why Americans can't keep nice things

Chauncey DeVega
Tucker Carlson; Ron DeSantis and Brett Kavanaugh (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Don't call it a culture war

Chauncey DeVega
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) discussed her legislation named the Protect Childrens Innocence Act on Capitol Hill September 20, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Who's next? GOP eradication plan begins

Chauncey DeVega
Demonstrators participate in a protest against the police killing of Tyre Nichols on January 27, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

America's most enduring myth

Chauncey DeVega
Little girl placing ballot in a drop box for absentee voting (Getty Images/Cavan Images)

Are children oppressed in America?

Gail Cornwall
Activists march to protest the death of Daunte Wright on April 13, 2021 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. People have taken to the streets to protest after Daunte Wright, a 20-year old black man, was shot and killed by police in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. (Mark Makela/Getty Images)

The complex simplicity of Black cops

Chauncey DeVega
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