The Regressive Ideologies Behind the ‘Baby Bust’ Panic
Corporate media downplay or ignore the white nationalism, regressive gender ideals and economic inequality driving the “pronatalist” narrative.
‘Advocates Know How to Fight Attempts to Repress Black History’:
CounterSpin interview with Naomi Bethune on anti-Black history
“Right now is the exact moment that we should be looking back on the conditions that marginalized people experienced at this country’s formal conception.”
Naomi Bethune on Anti-Black History Month?
In the words of Ida B. Wells: “The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.”
Why Corporate Media Needed to Misrepresent Jesse Jackson
The Rev. Jesse Jackson’s kind of politics terrified an elite that thrives on keeping the 99 Percent divided and conquered.
‘There’s an Attack on Racial Equity Analysis Because They Feel It Changes the Conversation’:
CounterSpin interview with Dedrick Asante-Muhammad on the State of the Dream
“People want to talk so much about the King holiday as a time for community service, but it’s really a time for community action.”
Dedrick Asante-Muhammad on State of the Dream 2026
The elite press corps that now pretend they honor Martin Luther King show that they never understood him—or those who share his vision today.
‘We’re Seeing the Result of Decades of ICE Being Able to Act With Impunity’:
CounterSpin interview with Setareh Ghandehari on ICE violence
“If ICE is acting with such impunity and disregard for human life in broad daylight…what happens inside of immigration detention centers?”
‘You Cannot Change a Reality That You Cannot Name’:
CounterSpin interview with Kimberlé Crenshaw on anti-Blackness
“Every time this democracy has been threatened…the core of it has been the manipulation of racial resentment and white supremacy.”
Kimberle Crenshaw on Anti-Blackness
US corporate media have a white supremacy problem: They decide whose ideas are taken for granted and whose deemed marginal.
Nonprofits Purge Websites of Diversity Language in Futile Attempt to Appease MAGA Inquisitors
Threats of funding cuts don’t just endanger nonprofits, they warp them—which is why putting political strings on funding violates the First Amendment.
NYT Covers Racism From the Point of View of the Racist
The New York Times’ problem isn’t that it hasn’t probed deeply enough into the far-right psyche; it’s that it refuses to stop normalizing it.
Jean Su on Challenging COP30 Narratives
Focusing on what people, including those most harmed, are doing, along with what’s being done to them, could help move debate off an outdated dime.
Press Remembers Oldest Survivor of Tulsa Massacre—But Not Press’s Role in Massacre
The white-owned press didn’t just fuel the Tulsa Race Massacre, which killed 300 overwhelmingly Black people and destroyed a thriving community; it also helped cover it up.
‘Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth’:
CounterSpin interview with Gene Slater, Richard Rothstein and George Lipsitz on housing and media
“Segregation was a government policy, it was racially conscious, it was not the unintended consequence of benign policies.”
50-Year Mortgages: Trump’s ‘Bad Deal’ Gets Respectful Hearing From Press
The 50-year mortgage plan, while dressed up as reform, is in reality part of an effort to normalize permanent indebtedness.
‘They Are Creating the Opportunity to Shrink Democracy More’:
CounterSpin interview with Madiba Dennie on Supreme Court vs. voting rights
“They are OK with using race to hurt people. They are not OK with using race to help people who are actual victims of racism.”
Madiba Dennie on Voting Rights Act in Danger
The argument is so specious a third grader could call it out. But if it comes from the Supreme Court majority, we are forced to consider it as serious.
Mumia Abu-Jamal on Media and Power
Mumia Abu-Jamal’s 1982 conviction exposed flagrant flaws in corporate media’s storytelling around crime and punishment and race and power.
‘The FCC Is Trying to Roll Back Protections Won Over the Past 60 Years’:
CounterSpin interview with Joseph Torres on FCC and structural racism
“We have not reconciled the history of… how government regulation was just reinforcing the racial apartheid that exists in our country.”
Joseph Torres on the FCC and Structural Racism
The White House’s assaults on the press corps are part of, and not ancillary to, their direct assaults on Black and brown people.
