By Five Omar Mualimm-ak, The Guardian Everyone knows that prison is supposed to take away your freedom. But solitary doesn’t just confine your body; it kills your soul.
Third World Press announces the forthcoming publication of The Diary of Malcolm X. In 1964, Malcolm X, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, made two trips to Africa and the Middle East. During…
By Rania Khalek, Truthout “We been exposed to this type of surveillance since we got here,” declared Kymone Freeman, director of the National Black LUV Fest as he emceed the…
By LEANNE ITALIE
NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Is donning blackface to dress up as a favorite TV character ever OK for Halloween?
UGLY CHANTS BY SOCCER FANS MAR ‘NO TO RACISM’ WEEK Oct. 29 (GIN) – African soccer stars came under a hail of racist chanting at a recent Champions League match…
Leon and Mary Adams had been living in their Philadelphia home for nearly five decades. They were eating breakfast one morning last year when armed cops streamed out of a…
Activist points to increasing privatization of detention centers as being behind mandatory detention rules in immigration reform bill.
NAREB Report Shows Nation’s Economic Recovery Isn’t Shared Equally As part of the 43rd annual Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Conference, the National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB) unveiled new…
A Local / National Town Hall Meeting to Discuss Additional Solutions to the Economic Underdevelopment, Mis-Education, Neglect, Drugs, Crime, Violence, Fraticide and Mass Incarceration in Distressed / Marginalized Black Neighborhoods
By John Duda
ZSpace
There are very legitimate reasons to be scared that the proliferation of video surveillance is rapidly encroaching on our rights to everyday privacy and anonymity on the streets of Baltimore. Spurred on by counter-terrorism paranoia, recent advances in camera technology and computerized image processing are bringing George Orwell’s dystopian nightmare of inescapable social control within reach of today’s bureaucrats.