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Make It Right

Uprooting racist infrastructure of Confederate statues and monuments—and promoting better American heroes.

Voting Booth

Incisive reporting on elections, primaries, voting rights and the party process.

Earth | Food | Life

Environmental journalism that integrates the path for sustainable lifestyles and an ethical diet.

Local Peace Economy

Inspiring stories of people’s efforts to reshape and reinvest in our local economy.

Our Schools

Going to the frontlines of the nationwide effort to privatize and undermine the public education system.

Face to Face

Going beyond headlines, labels and caricatures to find the social, political, spiritual common ground upon which we can build a shared politics.

Economy for All

Making the case for the general welfare of American society and the world at large.

Globetrotter

Lifting the voices of journalists working from the continents of Africa, Asia, and Latin America to make a world free of suffering.

Drug Reporter

Covering the disastrous war on drugs and mass incarceration it produces—and the growing movement to reform it.

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Make It Right Archives

Why Virginians Deserve to Have Local Control Over Confederate Monuments

Why Virginia Must Amend Its Law Protecting Confederate Statues

How the Daughters of the Confederacy Spoiled Christmas

Charlottesville Confederate Statue Defender Sues Paper, Prof, for Reporting His Family’s Slaveholding History

Confederate Monuments: Where Are They Now?

Kali Holloway and the Make It Right Project Cultivate Community in the Shadow of Confederate Monuments

S.C. Confederate Monuments Remain as a Symbol of Black Subjugation

Mistaken Ruling Over Lee and Jackson Statues Extends Charlottesville Harm

‘Loyal Slave’ Monuments Tell a Racist Lie About American History

Make It Right Project Cited in Charleston for Upcoming Efforts to Remove Calhoun Statue

If Northam Wants to Do Better on Racism, Standing Against Confederate Monuments Is a Good Start

Why Is UNC-Chapel Hill Spending $5 Million to Protect a Racist Statue?

Time to Expose the Women Still Celebrating the Confederacy

Charleston to Tree of Life: White Nationalism Is a Threat to Us All

It Takes Direct Action to Take Down Confederate Monuments

7 Things the United Daughters of the Confederacy Might Not Want You to Know About Them

The Republican Party’s Disturbing Romance With The Confederacy

How Right-Wingers in High Places Are Keeping Racist Statues Standing

Homophobia, Misogyny, and Islamophobia: The Right’s New Darling Has It All

Make It Right’s 10 Most Unwanted Statues

Make It Right Project Billboards Boost Activist Campaigns to Remove ‘Silent Sam’ Confederate Monument

UNC Punishing Student for Protesting Pro-Slavery Monuments