Remembering the 49 People Who Died in Orlando’s Pulse Nightclub Attack
Jun 12, 2017 It's been a year since the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history scarred countless lives and shook the city's gay community to its core.
Pride and Defiance: LGBTQ Marchers Make a Showing at the White House
Jun 12, 2017 Though celebration was in the air at Saturday's Capital Pride Parade in Washington, D.C., the crowd also brought other sentiments and goals to this year's event.
A Gradient of Perspective: Exploring Injustice Through Art
Mar 15, 2017 Artists explore unconscious bias and its consequences in a group exhibit in Cupertino, Calif.
A Poem Close to the Bone for Many in 2016
Jan 14, 2017 "I can tell something bad is happening in the world when my poem is surging,” says "Good Bones" author Maggie Smith.
Best of Truthdig’s Live Blogs 2016: First Drafts of History Bring Shock, Sadness and Hope
Dec 24, 2016 Republican and Democratic conventions. Primary and presidential nominee debates. The Pulse club mass shooting. The #NoDAPL fight. Some of the stories we covered in real time this year were long-scheduled. Other news was unforeseen, unfolding—some even ongoing.
‘Pow, Pow, Yous Are Dead!’
Aug 1, 2016 I hid my face in my hands. It wasn’t just that my toddler son was playing guns but that he was using a Pride flag as his weapon at a vigil to mourn those killed at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla.
Our Skewed Politics on Gun Ownership Are a Deadly Joke
Jun 30, 2016 The National Rifle Association and lawmakers who pander to it bear much of the blame for our ridiculous gun laws, but it’s up to ordinary Americans to fix the problem.Truthdigger of the Week: Rep. John Lewis, Hero of the Capitol Sit-In for Gun Control
Jun 26, 2016 The civil rights leader inspired an unprecedented protest with fellow Democrats against legislative indifference to America’s long and tragic epidemic of gun violence.American Battlefields
Jun 24, 2016
