With Robin D.G. Kelley, Vijay Prashad, and Christina Heatherton. At Verso Books in Brooklyn, May 24, 2018. Walter Rodney’s “The Russian Revolution” is available from Verso Books: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2724-the-russian-revolution In…
African Demands for Freedom During the American Revolution Was the American Revolution Fought to Save Slavery? By Heather Gray — Preface Today, July 4, is when Americans celebrate their independence…
Translating Aimé Césaire. By David B. Hobbs, The Nation — Aimé Césaire was one of the foremost French poets of the 20th century. He was also one of the foremost…
Ever since his “It’s not like I’m black, you know?” comment, Neymar has served as a focal point in Brazil’s cultural reckoning with racism, whitening, identity and public policy. By Cleuci de Oliveira, New York Times — Years before he became the most expensive player in the world; before his Olympic gold medal; before the Eiffel Tower lit up with his name to greet his professional move from Barcelona to…
The former NAACP head’s big win in a key gubernatorial primary sets him up as a Democrat who can run and win with a bold progressive vision. By John Nichols, The Nation — Ben Jealous entered the race for governor of Maryland with a remarkable résumé—Rhodes scholar, investigative journalist, past president of the Rosenberg Foundation, founding director of Amnesty International’s US Domestic Human Rights Program, youngest-ever national president of the NAACP, high-profile…
By Stephen Millies — Despite threatened thundershowers, 50 people took to the streets of Newark, N.J., on June 23 to demand reparations for Black people. Every year the People’s Organization…
The party’s rot didn’t begin with this president, but it’s collapsing beneath him. By Goldie Taylor, The Daily Beast — The Republican Party is in tatters. After spending decades investing in hyper-partisan, mean-spirited political shenanigans that gave safe harbor to white nationalists who believe this land belongs solely to them, they may finally pay a price for callously putting a madman in the Oval Office. There are, of course, the…
By Amy Ongiri, Los Angeles Review of Books — Just out of sheer curiosity (I might regret this but): Why are people making comparisons between the Black Panther Party and…
Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on his mission to the United States of America Note by the Secretariat The Secretariat has the honour to…
Donald Trump’s election is one major effect of this moral crisis, but arguably not its cause. By Chauncey DeVega, Salon — There is a lack of moral leadership in America….
By James Procter, The Conversation — Amid the celebrations to mark the 70th anniversary of the arrival of Empire Windrush from the Caribbean in 1948, much has been made of the warm welcome that once greeted those migrant men and women in Britain’s hour of need, as postwar reconstruction got underway. But it’s important Britain remembers that moment for what it was: a story of mixed reception. Despite and because of…
Neoliberalism and the revolt against austerity have pushed powerful states to impose social and economic pain on each other, or on smaller states. By Paul Mason, NewStateman — In the…
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