Social movements are powerful engines for change, and they coalesce around a vast range of issues, causes, and communities. But they fall into two basic categories: inclusionary and exclusionary.

This piece was originally published at Waging Nonviolence. The good news is that there are clear historical examples in which social movements have been able to step into the vacuum of a crisis. COVID ...

It has never been clearer that ideas germinated by social movements exert great force in law and politics in the United States. Examples from the left abound over the last decade. Occupy Wall Street ...

The U.S. and many other societies are cycling into situations of toxic polarization today; discussion, let alone consensus, often appears impossible and the advantage goes to exclusionary social ...

The Trump Administration has come in with brute force, attacking working people and institutions from all angles. Its “flood the zone” strategy has left many feeling confused and powerless. But the ...

Given how social media has been a part of most people’s everyday lives, it should not be surprising to us that social movement can be accomplished effectively online. In this post, my student, Sarah ...

In June 2015, a white supremacist opened fire inside the historic African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine black congregants, including the minister. The massacre ...