Since returning to office, the Trump administration has waged a comprehensive assault on the working class. From shredding the union contracts of over 50,000 federal workers overnight, to waging an illegal war on Iran that has killed thousands and displaced billions in economic costs onto working families, to the ongoing domestic war against immigrant workers who serve as pillars in our communities, Trump and his billionaire friends are committed to rolling back every gain working people have fought for and won through fierce struggle.

At the same time, the Trump administration has forced through the “Big Beautiful Bill” in an attempt to gut every agency upon which working class people are surviving – robbing tens of millions of their healthcare, their SNAP benefits and more at a time when inflation is through the roof. While we’re told that the national unemployment rate is somewhere between 4-8%, the true unemployment rate – including people without full time work and those earning poverty wages of less than $26,000 – is comparable to Great Depression levels, at nearly 25%.

In response to this deepening crisis for working people in all pockets of the country, the Democratic Party has argued that the only way to defeat Trump is to vote them back into office during the midterms this year. But if the Democrats can’t put up any fight to Trump’s agenda now, what should make us think that they will do anything vastly different?

On this Labor Day, we must remember where our power really comes from as working people. The benefits that we enjoy today were not a result of any benevolent politician. From labor rights to civil rights, every right we have has been won by working people joining together, taking the streets and fighting for it. That will be the only way we defeat Trump’s anti-worker agenda.

Today, the majority of Americans – at least 60% – view themselves as part of the working class, and increasingly despise the system of capitalism that prioritizes profits for the few over the majority of people’s needs. We have to work to survive, while the billionaire class continues to get richer and richer off our backs. In reality, we are the people who make society run everyday. Shouldn’t we be the people who run society?

Since returning to office, the Trump administration has waged a comprehensive assault on the working class. From shredding the union contracts of over 50,000 federal workers overnight, to waging an illegal war on Iran that has killed thousands and displaced billions in economic costs onto working families, to the ongoing domestic war against immigrant workers who serve as pillars in our communities, Trump and his billionaire friends are committed to rolling back every gain working people have fought for and won through fierce struggle.

At the same time, the Trump administration has forced through the “Big Beautiful Bill” in an attempt to gut every agency upon which working class people are surviving – robbing tens of millions of their healthcare, their SNAP benefits and more at a time when inflation is through the roof. While we’re told that the national unemployment rate is somewhere between 4-8%, the true unemployment rate – including people without full time work and those earning poverty wages of less than $26,000 – is comparable to Great Depression levels, at nearly 25%.

In response to this deepening crisis for working people in all pockets of the country, the Democratic Party has argued that the only way to defeat Trump is to vote them back into office during the midterms this year. But if the Democrats can’t put up any fight to Trump’s agenda now, what should make us think that they will do anything vastly different?

On this Labor Day, we must remember where our power really comes from as working people. The benefits that we enjoy today were not a result of any benevolent politician. From labor rights to civil rights, every right we have has been won by working people joining together, taking the streets and fighting for it. That will be the only way we defeat Trump’s anti-worker agenda.

Today, the majority of Americans – at least 60% – view themselves as part of the working class, and increasingly despise the system of capitalism that prioritizes profits for the few over the majority of people’s needs. We have to work to survive, while the billionaire class continues to get richer and richer off our backs. In reality, we are the people who make society run everyday. Shouldn’t we be the people who run society?

On August 26, the Seattle Education Association, which represents over 5900 education professionals throughout the city of Seattle, voted with 91% of members in favor to authorize a strike. The authorization vote followed hundreds of hours of negotiations spread over more than 20 bargaining sessions between Seattle Public Schools and SEA, after which SPS agreed to only around 12% of SEA’s demands. Workers will go on strike on September 2, the intended first day of the upcoming school year, if an agreement is not reached by then.

At the heart of SEA’s proposals is the understanding that education professionals’ working conditions are inextricably linked to students’ learning environments and outcomes. SEA’s core demands are:

Protect Special Education. SEA is fighting the district’s proposal to combine programs and cut support staffing, which would push even more onto educators already carrying too much.

Fair pay, especially for paraprofessionals and office professionals. Many SPS paraprofessionals earn below what HUD calls “very low income” for Seattle. One job should be enough!

Curb pressurization. Smaller class sizes, smaller case loads, and an end to the constant addition of duties beyond teaching.

These demands, if met, will mean students receive the effective instruction they need, while enabling staff to focus on education rather than making ends meet or doing paperwork.

Beyond these core demands, SEA is fighting for stronger protections for immigrants and LGBTQ+ members, professional autonomy, commitments around AI, and more.

Funding issues being used to push austerity agenda on Seattle schools

The district, headed up by brand-new Sup. Ben Shuldiner, is using the budget deficit as a pretext to drastically cut professional autonomy in the workplace and make sweeping austerity-based changes to the structure of schools. The budget deficit is real: Washington’s state funding for public education has declined from 52% to 43.2%, while structural obstacles like an insufficient funding formula and a state cap on how much local levies can collect have contributed to a budget deficit of about $75-87 million.

Inadequate state funding alone did not cause the deficit, though. The district’s management of its $1.3 billion annual budget has also contributed to the problem, as evidenced by administrative bloat and opaque “other” category in the budget, amont other questionable financial practices. The new superintendent himself is paid more than $400,000 annually.

A few years ago, the Seattle School Board tried to close 20 schools in response to the budget deficit and faced significant backlash. This is why they hired Shuldiner: he did the same cost-cutting in the Lansing, Michigan school district. His proposals are bad, but he was brought in by the board specifically to implement an austerity agenda. Austerity imposed for the sake of reducing the deficit will not address the issues of living wages for paraprofessionals and office workers, hard caps on class sizes/case loads, more support for multi-language learners and special education students, and respect for professional autonomy.

No matter which party is in office, federal ed policies hurt students and educators

The chasm between student needs and government policies and funding is emblematic of larger trends occurring across the nation. In the 2000s, the Bush administration used the punitive No Child Left Behind policy to defund already under-resourced schools. The 2009 Race to the Top grant program under Obama offered a carrot to promote slightly different neoliberal education reforms; in 2015, the Obama administration replaced NCLB with the Every Student Succeeds Act, which dramatically reduced the role of the federal government in public education, further exacerbating inequities between states. The second Trump administration’s Educational Choice for Children Act, passed last July, financially incentivizes parents to donate and send their children to private schools, siphoning billions away from public schools, while moving to dismantle the Dept. of Education.

These decades of austerity and neoliberal education reform under the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations have pushed our public education system to the brink and forced education unions to respond. In February 2018, roughly 20,000 members of American Federation of Teachers and National Education Association chapters across all 55 school districts in West Virginia staged a historic strike that lasted nearly two weeks and secured significant wins for workers and students. The strike in West Virginia sparked a wave of similar struggles in states throughout the nation over the following year. More recently, SEA staged a strike in 2022, and this past February, educators in San Francisco went on strike for the first time in fifty years. In authorizing this most recent strike, SEA joins the continuing resurgence of educators using the power of their labor to fight for the welfare of their students.

We applaud and stand in solidarity with the members of SEA as they campaign for their students. That being said, that education professionals in this country are forced to go on strike at all, while the government endlessly funds ICE and the military, is an indictment of the profit-driven capitalist system we live under. A worker-run socialist government would necessarily recognize the importance of, and accordingly provide for, a robust public education system. Under socialism, education professionals would have the resources they need to dedicate all their time and energy to giving their students the education they deserve.

On August 26, the Seattle Education Association, which represents over 5900 education professionals throughout the city of Seattle, voted with 91% of members in favor to authorize a strike. The authorization vote followed hundreds of hours of negotiations spread over more than 20 bargaining sessions between Seattle Public Schools and SEA, after which SPS agreed to only around 12% of SEA’s demands. Workers will go on strike on September 2, the intended first day of the upcoming school year, if an agreement is not reached by then.

At the heart of SEA’s proposals is the understanding that education professionals’ working conditions are inextricably linked to students’ learning environments and outcomes. SEA’s core demands are:

Protect Special Education. SEA is fighting the district’s proposal to combine programs and cut support staffing, which would push even more onto educators already carrying too much.

Fair pay, especially for paraprofessionals and office professionals. Many SPS paraprofessionals earn below what HUD calls “very low income” for Seattle. One job should be enough!

Curb pressurization. Smaller class sizes, smaller case loads, and an end to the constant addition of duties beyond teaching.

These demands, if met, will mean students receive the effective instruction they need, while enabling staff to focus on education rather than making ends meet or doing paperwork.

Beyond these core demands, SEA is fighting for stronger protections for immigrants and LGBTQ+ members, professional autonomy, commitments around AI, and more.

Funding issues being used to push austerity agenda on Seattle schools

The district, headed up by brand-new Sup. Ben Shuldiner, is using the budget deficit as a pretext to drastically cut professional autonomy in the workplace and make sweeping austerity-based changes to the structure of schools. The budget deficit is real: Washington’s state funding for public education has declined from 52% to 43.2%, while structural obstacles like an insufficient funding formula and a state cap on how much local levies can collect have contributed to a budget deficit of about $75-87 million.

Inadequate state funding alone did not cause the deficit, though. The district’s management of its $1.3 billion annual budget has also contributed to the problem, as evidenced by administrative bloat and opaque “other” category in the budget, amont other questionable financial practices. The new superintendent himself is paid more than $400,000 annually.

A few years ago, the Seattle School Board tried to close 20 schools in response to the budget deficit and faced significant backlash. This is why they hired Shuldiner: he did the same cost-cutting in the Lansing, Michigan school district. His proposals are bad, but he was brought in by the board specifically to implement an austerity agenda. Austerity imposed for the sake of reducing the deficit will not address the issues of living wages for paraprofessionals and office workers, hard caps on class sizes/case loads, more support for multi-language learners and special education students, and respect for professional autonomy.

No matter which party is in office, federal ed policies hurt students and educators

The chasm between student needs and government policies and funding is emblematic of larger trends occurring across the nation. In the 2000s, the Bush administration used the punitive No Child Left Behind policy to defund already under-resourced schools. The 2009 Race to the Top grant program under Obama offered a carrot to promote slightly different neoliberal education reforms; in 2015, the Obama administration replaced NCLB with the Every Student Succeeds Act, which dramatically reduced the role of the federal government in public education, further exacerbating inequities between states. The second Trump administration’s Educational Choice for Children Act, passed last July, financially incentivizes parents to donate and send their children to private schools, siphoning billions away from public schools, while moving to dismantle the Dept. of Education.

These decades of austerity and neoliberal education reform under the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations have pushed our public education system to the brink and forced education unions to respond. In February 2018, roughly 20,000 members of American Federation of Teachers and National Education Association chapters across all 55 school districts in West Virginia staged a historic strike that lasted nearly two weeks and secured significant wins for workers and students. The strike in West Virginia sparked a wave of similar struggles in states throughout the nation over the following year. More recently, SEA staged a strike in 2022, and this past February, educators in San Francisco went on strike for the first time in fifty years. In authorizing this most recent strike, SEA joins the continuing resurgence of educators using the power of their labor to fight for the welfare of their students.

We applaud and stand in solidarity with the members of SEA as they campaign for their students. That being said, that education professionals in this country are forced to go on strike at all, while the government endlessly funds ICE and the military, is an indictment of the profit-driven capitalist system we live under. A worker-run socialist government would necessarily recognize the importance of, and accordingly provide for, a robust public education system. Under socialism, education professionals would have the resources they need to dedicate all their time and energy to giving their students the education they deserve.

While Black August is coming to a close, the fight for Black liberation rages on. Seeing the representation of Black faces in high places does not diminish the plight of Black Americans. That’s because the entire system is rigged against Black working class people – and no matter who is in the White House, the symptoms do not get any better. For Black liberation to become a reality, the entire system must fall!

The cycle of poverty is a never-ending, self-fulfilling prophecy under the capitalist system. When communities don’t have an adequate tax base or political influence, then critical programs are not properly funded. When critical programs aren’t properly funded, educational, environmental and health outcomes are all predictably worsened. Impoverished communities, then, become even easier for governmental bodies to neglect as “a lost cause”.

Black communities entered 2026 facing the same economic inequalities that have plagued Black communities for generations — higher unemployment, lower wages, and a persistent racial wealth gap.

In July 2026, Black unemployment stood at 6.3%, compared with 3.6% for white workers. Black full-time workers earned a median of $1,029 per week in the second quarter of 2026, roughly 19% less than the $1,268 median for white workers.

The latest data shows that the median Black family holds just $44,900 in wealth, compared with $285,000 for the median white family.

That we see more Black people represented in higher positions of power today does not diminish the grave reality of widespread poverty and disinvestment that Black working class people are experiencing.

In fact, this disparity can be used as a means of further criminalizing Black communities. Black communities experience higher levels of policing, but all the research shows that police don’t actually solve crime. They end up perpetrating the crime of mass incarceration instead. While Black people make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they represent nearly 40% of the prison population, further contributing to the deterioration of Black communities.

The entire system is rigged against Black working class people – and no matter who is in the White House, the symptoms do not get any better.

Throughout the history of this country, the struggle of the Black community for equality and democracy has been the main engine of progress.

The overarching goal of the Trump administration is to undo that progress and plunge the country into a new era where there are no limits on the power of the rich and corporations to exploit the people and destroy the planet. Even if he focuses his racist rhetoric against other targets, like immigrants from Latin America, at the core of Trump’s agenda is an all-out assault on Black people.

Trump’s second term has brought a direct assault on Black communities and the gains of the Civil Rights Movement. His administration has dismantled federal DEI and affirmative-action programs, gutted offices responsible for enforcing workplace civil rights, and pushed the Justice Department to abandon or dismiss investigations into police departments accused of unconstitutional treatment of Black communities while rolling back federal oversight. At the same time, the administration has taken positions against expanding Black voting power under the Voting Rights Act and is pushing new restrictions on mail-in voting that threaten to make voting harder for millions.

Trump’s 2025 budget law cuts Medicaid and SNAP, programs millions of working-class Black families depend on, while shifting resources toward tax cuts, policing, immigration enforcement, and the military. The administration is also shrinking the federal workforce and dismantling programs designed to address racial discrimination, threatening jobs and protections for Black workers. These policies make clear that Trump’s agenda is not simply about rolling back “DEI” — it is about dismantling the public institutions and protections that working people have fought for, while leaving Black communities to bear the greatest costs.

But just because Trump wants to push through racist policies, doesn’t mean he’ll be able to get away with it.

Racist injustice against Black people is so persistent in the U.S. not solely because of personal attitudes and prejudices. Racism is an essential tool used by the billionaires who rule this country and the powerful institutions they control to cement their domination over society.

White supremacy allows the ruling class to grow even richer by exploiting Black workers especially intensely — with slavery as the most extreme example upon which the country was built. And further, racism divides working people, helping the elite maintain their political power. If Black people are demonized and presented as the source of social problems, then the millionaires and billionaires who are actually to blame get let off the hook.

Through courageous struggle, there have been periods of historic progress towards Black freedom. But whenever that struggle slows down, the natural tendency of the system is to roll back that progress. Take affirmative action for instance — the Black liberation movement of the 1960s won affirmative action programs nationwide, but starting in 1978 the courts gradually restricted these policies before ending them altogether.

For decades, the vast majority of Black voters have supported Democratic Party politicians, only to have those politicians abandon the interests of the Black community as soon as they take office.

No matter how many Black politicians are elected, or how many Black people are in positions of prominence in economic and cultural institutions, conditions for the working class majority of the Black community never change — or even get worse.

The problem is at the roots: this country is ruled by a tiny handful of billionaires, and decisions are made to maximize profits for those billionaires. White supremacy persists because it is in their interests for it to persist. But the grinding oppression and inequality Black communities are subjected to would be totally at odds with the goals of a society ruled by the working class, where decisions are made to meet the needs of the people and the planet.

Featured Image: Demonstrators in Philadelphia park during 2020 mass uprisings against racism and police brutality. Credit: Amistad Law Project.

While Black August is coming to a close, the fight for Black liberation rages on. Seeing the representation of Black faces in high places does not diminish the plight of Black Americans. That’s because the entire system is rigged against Black working class people – and no matter who is in the White House, the symptoms do not get any better. For Black liberation to become a reality, the entire system must fall!

The cycle of poverty is a never-ending, self-fulfilling prophecy under the capitalist system. When communities don’t have an adequate tax base or political influence, then critical programs are not properly funded. When critical programs aren’t properly funded, educational, environmental and health outcomes are all predictably worsened. Impoverished communities, then, become even easier for governmental bodies to neglect as “a lost cause”.

Black communities entered 2026 facing the same economic inequalities that have plagued Black communities for generations — higher unemployment, lower wages, and a persistent racial wealth gap.

In July 2026, Black unemployment stood at 6.3%, compared with 3.6% for white workers. Black full-time workers earned a median of $1,029 per week in the second quarter of 2026, roughly 19% less than the $1,268 median for white workers.

The latest data shows that the median Black family holds just $44,900 in wealth, compared with $285,000 for the median white family.

That we see more Black people represented in higher positions of power today does not diminish the grave reality of widespread poverty and disinvestment that Black working class people are experiencing.

In fact, this disparity can be used as a means of further criminalizing Black communities. Black communities experience higher levels of policing, but all the research shows that police don’t actually solve crime. They end up perpetrating the crime of mass incarceration instead. While Black people make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they represent nearly 40% of the prison population, further contributing to the deterioration of Black communities.

The entire system is rigged against Black working class people – and no matter who is in the White House, the symptoms do not get any better.

Throughout the history of this country, the struggle of the Black community for equality and democracy has been the main engine of progress.

The overarching goal of the Trump administration is to undo that progress and plunge the country into a new era where there are no limits on the power of the rich and corporations to exploit the people and destroy the planet. Even if he focuses his racist rhetoric against other targets, like immigrants from Latin America, at the core of Trump’s agenda is an all-out assault on Black people.

Trump’s second term has brought a direct assault on Black communities and the gains of the Civil Rights Movement. His administration has dismantled federal DEI and affirmative-action programs, gutted offices responsible for enforcing workplace civil rights, and pushed the Justice Department to abandon or dismiss investigations into police departments accused of unconstitutional treatment of Black communities while rolling back federal oversight. At the same time, the administration has taken positions against expanding Black voting power under the Voting Rights Act and is pushing new restrictions on mail-in voting that threaten to make voting harder for millions.

Trump’s 2025 budget law cuts Medicaid and SNAP, programs millions of working-class Black families depend on, while shifting resources toward tax cuts, policing, immigration enforcement, and the military. The administration is also shrinking the federal workforce and dismantling programs designed to address racial discrimination, threatening jobs and protections for Black workers. These policies make clear that Trump’s agenda is not simply about rolling back “DEI” — it is about dismantling the public institutions and protections that working people have fought for, while leaving Black communities to bear the greatest costs.

But just because Trump wants to push through racist policies, doesn’t mean he’ll be able to get away with it.

Racist injustice against Black people is so persistent in the U.S. not solely because of personal attitudes and prejudices. Racism is an essential tool used by the billionaires who rule this country and the powerful institutions they control to cement their domination over society.

White supremacy allows the ruling class to grow even richer by exploiting Black workers especially intensely — with slavery as the most extreme example upon which the country was built. And further, racism divides working people, helping the elite maintain their political power. If Black people are demonized and presented as the source of social problems, then the millionaires and billionaires who are actually to blame get let off the hook.

Through courageous struggle, there have been periods of historic progress towards Black freedom. But whenever that struggle slows down, the natural tendency of the system is to roll back that progress. Take affirmative action for instance — the Black liberation movement of the 1960s won affirmative action programs nationwide, but starting in 1978 the courts gradually restricted these policies before ending them altogether.

For decades, the vast majority of Black voters have supported Democratic Party politicians, only to have those politicians abandon the interests of the Black community as soon as they take office.

No matter how many Black politicians are elected, or how many Black people are in positions of prominence in economic and cultural institutions, conditions for the working class majority of the Black community never change — or even get worse.

The problem is at the roots: this country is ruled by a tiny handful of billionaires, and decisions are made to maximize profits for those billionaires. White supremacy persists because it is in their interests for it to persist. But the grinding oppression and inequality Black communities are subjected to would be totally at odds with the goals of a society ruled by the working class, where decisions are made to meet the needs of the people and the planet.

Featured Image: Demonstrators in Philadelphia park during 2020 mass uprisings against racism and police brutality. Credit: Amistad Law Project.

While Black August is coming to a close, the fight for Black liberation rages on. Seeing the representation of Black faces in high places does not diminish the plight of Black Americans. That’s because the entire system is rigged against Black working class people – and no matter who is in the White House, the symptoms do not get any better. For Black liberation to become a reality, the entire system must fall!

The cycle of poverty is a never-ending, self-fulfilling prophecy under the capitalist system. When communities don’t have an adequate tax base or political influence, then critical programs are not properly funded. When critical programs aren’t properly funded, educational, environmental and health outcomes are all predictably worsened. Impoverished communities, then, become even easier for governmental bodies to neglect as “a lost cause”.

Black communities entered 2026 facing the same economic inequalities that have plagued Black communities for generations — higher unemployment, lower wages, and a persistent racial wealth gap.

In July 2026, Black unemployment stood at 6.3%, compared with 3.6% for white workers. Black full-time workers earned a median of $1,029 per week in the second quarter of 2026, roughly 19% less than the $1,268 median for white workers.

The latest data shows that the median Black family holds just $44,900 in wealth, compared with $285,000 for the median white family.

That we see more Black people represented in higher positions of power today does not diminish the grave reality of widespread poverty and disinvestment that Black working class people are experiencing.

In fact, this disparity can be used as a means of further criminalizing Black communities. Black communities experience higher levels of policing, but all the research shows that police don’t actually solve crime. They end up perpetrating the crime of mass incarceration instead. While Black people make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they represent nearly 40% of the prison population, further contributing to the deterioration of Black communities.

The entire system is rigged against Black working class people – and no matter who is in the White House, the symptoms do not get any better.

Throughout the history of this country, the struggle of the Black community for equality and democracy has been the main engine of progress.

The overarching goal of the Trump administration is to undo that progress and plunge the country into a new era where there are no limits on the power of the rich and corporations to exploit the people and destroy the planet. Even if he focuses his racist rhetoric against other targets, like immigrants from Latin America, at the core of Trump’s agenda is an all-out assault on Black people.

Trump’s second term has brought a direct assault on Black communities and the gains of the Civil Rights Movement. His administration has dismantled federal DEI and affirmative-action programs, gutted offices responsible for enforcing workplace civil rights, and pushed the Justice Department to abandon or dismiss investigations into police departments accused of unconstitutional treatment of Black communities while rolling back federal oversight. At the same time, the administration has taken positions against expanding Black voting power under the Voting Rights Act and is pushing new restrictions on mail-in voting that threaten to make voting harder for millions.

Trump’s 2025 budget law cuts Medicaid and SNAP, programs millions of working-class Black families depend on, while shifting resources toward tax cuts, policing, immigration enforcement, and the military. The administration is also shrinking the federal workforce and dismantling programs designed to address racial discrimination, threatening jobs and protections for Black workers. These policies make clear that Trump’s agenda is not simply about rolling back “DEI” — it is about dismantling the public institutions and protections that working people have fought for, while leaving Black communities to bear the greatest costs.

But just because Trump wants to push through racist policies, doesn’t mean he’ll be able to get away with it.

Racist injustice against Black people is so persistent in the U.S. not solely because of personal attitudes and prejudices. Racism is an essential tool used by the billionaires who rule this country and the powerful institutions they control to cement their domination over society.

White supremacy allows the ruling class to grow even richer by exploiting Black workers especially intensely — with slavery as the most extreme example upon which the country was built. And further, racism divides working people, helping the elite maintain their political power. If Black people are demonized and presented as the source of social problems, then the millionaires and billionaires who are actually to blame get let off the hook.

Through courageous struggle, there have been periods of historic progress towards Black freedom. But whenever that struggle slows down, the natural tendency of the system is to roll back that progress. Take affirmative action for instance — the Black liberation movement of the 1960s won affirmative action programs nationwide, but starting in 1978 the courts gradually restricted these policies before ending them altogether.

For decades, the vast majority of Black voters have supported Democratic Party politicians, only to have those politicians abandon the interests of the Black community as soon as they take office.

No matter how many Black politicians are elected, or how many Black people are in positions of prominence in economic and cultural institutions, conditions for the working class majority of the Black community never change — or even get worse.

The problem is at the roots: this country is ruled by a tiny handful of billionaires, and decisions are made to maximize profits for those billionaires. White supremacy persists because it is in their interests for it to persist. But the grinding oppression and inequality Black communities are subjected to would be totally at odds with the goals of a society ruled by the working class, where decisions are made to meet the needs of the people and the planet.

Featured Image: Demonstrators in Philadelphia park during 2020 mass uprisings against racism and police brutality. Credit: Amistad Law Project.