Ranjani Chakraborty

Dec 13, 2023 | msn.com | Ranjani Chakraborty

Dec 13, 2023 | vox.com | Ranjani Chakraborty

Israel has been engaged in harrowing negotiations to recover the roughly 240 hostages held by Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza following the October 7 attack. In exchange for their release, the Israeli government has a bargaining chip that is extremely valuable to Palestinians: the thousands of Palestinian prisoners locked up in Israeli prisons.

Sep 29, 2023 | msn.com | Ranjani Chakraborty

Sep 29, 2023 | msn.com | Ranjani Chakraborty

Sep 29, 2023 | vox.com | Ranjani Chakraborty

In the 1960s, Floyd B. McKissick, a prolific civil rights activist, embarked on an ambitious idea: What if Black Americans could build and lead their own city? A place centered on the idea of racial equality and economic power, where everyone, especially people of color and the poor, could thrive? That idea turned into Soul City, North Carolina: the Black-led capitalist utopia that almost came to be. At the time, the federal government was encouraging the idea of new cities.