Opinion | Down About the Election? There Is a Speech I Want You to Read.

Angela Davis on cultivating long range imagination: “We wouldn’t be here today had it not been the case that in the 1600s and 1700s there were Black people who believed in the possibility of freedom and we are the beneficiaries of that imagination.”

Things are really dark right now. We have a new crop of fascists pledging "America First" in the White House. A new series of attacks on immigrants and people of color. Even as someone who expected things to get bad fast, the level of cruelty and destruction being wrought by Donald Trump and the unelected Elon Musk is staggering.

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is a manifesto, deeply rooted in history, for anyone committed to social justice. The book challenges us all to listen to a working-poor and disabled Black woman activist and intellectual from the past as we confront contemporary concerns, many of which consumed Hamer’s mind during her lifetime. More than forty years since Hamer’s death, her words

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Nothing is entirely new. Everything has some instructive connection to past events. Nor is anything really eternal or inevitable. If we have the references, we remember that past catastrophes have been survived, overcome, and even exploited. Then the present seems less shocking, and the future more open. The possibilities are more numerous than the

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Protest is one of the basic acts of citizenship, and in some contexts (for example, the civil rights movement) it’s an expression of faith in the power of democratic institutions to bring change—the vigilance of a free press, the impartiality of the law, the conscience or self-interest of elected officials, the movability of public opinion. But the

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