Frantz Fanon spoke rightfully and repeatedly of the importance of discovering and fulfilling our mission as a generation and by extension as a people.
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This is an image of a 19th century wood engraving called “Slaves in Brazil: The Terrible Torture of a Slave”, from ‘Journal des Voyages. It depicts a black slave being boiled alive above a huge cauldron.
President Obama made no mention of the war on drugs in his State of the Union speech, nor its role in both international and domestic crises, signaling that despite marijuana legalization in Washington and Colorado…
It’s the middle of the night when heavily-armed police burst into a house, terrify the people who live there and make an arrest. This scene is repeated tens of thousands of times each year across the United States, most often in communities of color.
There are fewer institutions more crippling to America than the prison industrial complex. Families are torn apart on a regular basis, and many of these families are black. One athlete in the Super Bowl is giving a face to the tragedy and he is prepared for the biggest moment of his life and a chance to make his family proud.
Today the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee passed bipartisan sentencing reform legislation that reduces the federal prison population, decreases racial disparities, saves taxpayer money, and reunites nonviolent drug law offenders with their families sooner.
In a weekend interview with German ARD public television network, Edward Snowden revealed that the U.S. government uses its broad electronic surveillance capabilities to engage in industrial espionage.
After Bill de Blasio was elected mayor of New York City on a promise to narrow the gap between rich and poor, former Montana governor Brian Schweitzer (D) lectured him on the facts of local government life.
Criticism is mounting over reported remarks last week of DEA chief Michele Leonhart in a speech to the Major Counties Sheriffs Association. Leonhart criticized her boss, President Obama, for acknowledging in a recent interviewthat marijuana is not more dangerous than alcohol and that the experiments with marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington were “important.”
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to students at the Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina in Havana today:
Socialist Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant ripped not only President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech Tuesday night, but the Democrats and Republicans alongside him as he delivered it.
And… action! There he is, tall and lean, his pleasant face composed in an expression at once cheerful and slightly supercilious.
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