By Adam Sanchez — Every day seems to bring new horrors as the U.S. president’s racist rhetoric and policies have provided an increasingly encouraging environment for attacks on Black people…
“For African Americans, it is not about standing, sitting, or kneeling for the National Anthem? it is about unarmed African Americans lying in a grave who were shot and killed…
By Dan Glazebrook — Exactly six years ago, on October 20th, 2011, Muammar Gaddafi was murdered, joining a long list of African revolutionaries martyred by the West for daring to dream of continental independence. Earlier that day, Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte had been occupied by Western-backed militias, following a month-long battle during which NATO and its ‘rebel’ allies pounded the city’s hospitals and homes with artillery…
By Pete Dolack — History does not travel in a straight line. I won’t argue against that sentence being a cliché. Yet it is still true. If it weren’t, we wouldn’t be still debating the meaning of Russia’s 1917 October Revolution on its centenary, and more than a quarter-century after its demise. Neither the Bolsheviks nor any other party played a direct role in the February revolution that toppled Tsar Nicholas II…
Organizations that claim to serve the public good are enriching Robert Mercer. By Judd Legum and Danielle Mclean, Think Progress — The connection between Breitbart, a far-right website, and the white nationalist movement was hardly a secret. Steve Bannon, who served as Executive Chairman of the publication before and after serving as Trump’s chief strategist, called Breitbart “the platform for the alt-right,” a euphemism for white nationalists and their sympathizers. These extreme…
Topic/Premium — Slave: Days of Blood, Days of Tears – Narratives of Enslaved Africans. Guest — Dr. Patrick Delices, Scholar, Journalist, Candidate for City Council, New York, NY.
By Kenneth T. Andrews — Do protests and social movements matter? Do they really bring about change? Answering this question is tricky. It’s not obvious, for example, how much the recent shift to the right in American politics reflects the efforts of the Tea Party movement and how much it reflects deeper developments such as increasing racial hostility and negative reactions to globalization. Sometimes a movement matters far less than the social, economic and political forces that give rise to the movement itself.
Video: Opening Night — Launch of the Centre for Reparation Research at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona Campus, Jamaica. Also watch: Plenary session at Launch of the…
Video: Region Talk interview with Samia Nkrumah, Ghanaian politician and daughter of former president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah. The interview hosted by Professor Rupert Lewis. Originally aired on October 19,…
Credit: Northwestern University by Hilary Hurd Anyaso — News about the Black Lives Matter movement (BLM) breaks daily—”Can Black Lives Matter Win in the Age of Trump?” “Black Lives Matter…
By Axel Honneth — Not since the end of the Second World War has the dissatisfaction with social and political consequences of capitalism been greater. Yet, unlike previous periods of…
By Thaddeus Talbot, Hugh Handeyside, and Malkia Cyril, www.aclu.org — A recently leaked FBI “Intelligence Assessment” contains troubling signs that the FBI is scrutinizing and possibly surveilling Black activists in its search…