September 21, 2018
Not really. The wall of black unity around Barack Obama freed him to embrace school privatization, to ignore foreclosures of hundreds of thousands of black families, to break promises to raise the minimum wage and more. Are we repeating that mistake?
September 20, 2018
Bernie Sanders obscures the facts of U.S. militarism, and urges Americans to fixate on axis of evil oligarch-ruled countries that does not include the home of the richest oligarchs of all: the United States.
September 19, 2018
Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame has released two of his best known political prisoners: Victoire Ingabire, a Hutu political activist, and Kizito Mihigo, a Tutsi gospel singer.
September 19, 2018
Long before the Nike deal it was clear that Kaepernick’s politics were being subsumed by other forces pushing a weak soup of “diversity” and “free speech.”
September 18, 2018
Mumuia Abu Jamal on the statewide PA prison lockdown; Dr. Robin Kelley on Boots Riley critique of BlacKKKlansman, Trump to charge fees for DC protests; PA spends millions on technologies of repression.
Articles exposing the hypocrisy of supposedly honorable figures who push for, or enable, war and regime change resonated with readers over the past
The greatest thing about HBCUs are the toiling students fighting for justice on these campuses.
Things could get very ugly in Chicago if the cop that killed Laquan McDonald is set free by a jury that includes only one Black person.
Rather than benevolent protector, the state enables and often perpetuates violence against marginalized communities, criminalizing them.
The racism of the larger society is internalized in us, including those of us who are Black and brown, and must be methodically confronted.
Incarcerated people are limited to pushing prison reform, while the unincarcerated have the privilege to advocate abolition.
Although a statewide lockdown is officially over, prisoner mail and visitation will be hugely disrupted for the next 90 days, said Johanna
Robin DG Kelly, the author and essayist, agrees with Boots Riley’s critique of BlacKkKlansman, the Spike Lee movie whose hero is a
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Articles exposing the hypocrisy of supposedly honorable figures who push for, or enable, war and regime change resonated with readers over the past few weeks.
Ten years ago it was 2008.
Bernie Sanders obscures the facts of U.S.-
The greatest thing about HBCUs are the toiling students fighting for justice on these campuses. Not the college presidents, boards of trustees, the administrators, teachers, or coaches.
“…hear me now, five, four, three, two, one…
