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LaToya Ruby Frazier's photographs document the challenges and inequities faced by people across America's heartland but also serve as calls to action to help address them. Born in 1982 in [...]

Phyllis Bennis is director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, focusing on the Middle East, U.S. militarism, and U.N. issues. A longtime peace activist, she [...]

living things BLOOM ASKS AN ACTIVIST GARDENER In the aftermath of London’s Grenfell Tower fire, former footballer Tayshan Hayden-Smith grew a community garden in its shadow. He tells us how [...]

'The master's tools,' Audre Lorde said, 'will never dismantle the master's house.' But what if the master's tools are all you have for now? How can they be subverted or [...]

When I ring Hamid Khan, Los Angeles has just been hit by a hurricane. Fortunately, the onslaught of natural disasters hadn't inflicted too much damage to his neighbourhood. 'It's all [...]

Holly Near has had an amazing, exemplary life of artistry, performance, songwriting, and activism. The arc of her professional life has spanned more than five decades in a most unique [...]

Natan Sharansky spent 405 days in a punishment cell. This was considered 'a kind of record,' he says. A punishment cell is small, cold, dark. You get three pieces of [...]

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a non-binary disabled femme writer, curator, and disability/transformative justice movement worker of Burgher and Tamil Sri Lankan, Irish, and Galician ascent. Their tenth book, The Future [...]

Liberal philanthropic foundations, and the billions of dollars they dispense annually, are a ubiquitous feature of American life. They appear to us as a string of proper names chanted hourly [...]

Twenty-seven-year-old equestrian Brianna Noble went viral in 2020 when she pulled up to a Black Lives Matter protest on horseback. Now, the founder of Urban Cowgirl Ranch is showing what [...]

Social movements can be incredibly affirming and transformative spaces in which we find community, create bonds of solidarity, and begin building the world we want to live in. For many [...]

On December 8, 2021, Research for the Front Lines hosted an online 08cA session with longtime activist, writer, and educator Chris Dixon. Research for the Front Lines is a new [...]

Byline: Caroline Spivack DAPHNE FRIAS, 25 Freelance organizer If you ask Daphne Frias to describe herself, she'll tell you she is a disabled organizer and storyteller. The 25-year-old, who has [...]

Now 25, Anami Daudi Toure has lived in Mukuru kwa Njenga informal settlement since he was 5. Until last year, Mukuru was home to over 100,000 people - but a [...]

There are those who believe a work of art doesn't exist until it is discussed. As a young artist in Chicago, one of Dread Scott's first audiences was the Supreme [...]

The Arab Spring began five years ago when two men set themselves on fire in Tunisia. One of them survived his self-immolation--and now wishes he hadn't. His story, written by [...]

A former Cleveland city council member and Ohio state legislator, Nina Turner stepped onto the national stage as an ardent defender of labor rights in 2011, when she was an outspoken critic of the wave of attacks on public-sector unions in Ohio, Wisconsin, and other states. She went on to become one of the most prominent surrogates for Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, when he sought the presidency in 2016 and 2020., In 2017, Turner became the president of Our Revolution, the political organization forged by Sanders campaign veterans, and joined the Democratic National Committee's Unity Reform Commission. She's been a regular [...]

The son of working-class Jewish parents, Edward J. Blum made his career as a financial adviser and experienced the kind of upward mobility that American institutions were supposed to foster [...]

In 1948, when Jane Fonda was 10 years old, she wrote a letter to her father, Henry Fonda, who was temporarily living in New York, performing on Broadway. The letter--accompanied [...]

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once the CEO of Russia's biggest oil company, spent a decade in prison after clashing with the Russian president in 2003. Now he's one of the Kremlin's most [...]

IN 1977, THE American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) went to court to defend the rights of American neoNazis to march through the streets of Skokie, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago [...]

'I 'm never in any bass magazines!' snickers Krist Novoselic, legend for an entire generation of grunge fans. Why should this be, we ask ourselves? Perhaps it's because his old [...]