Gloria Rubac

<span class="streamer">In honor of Negro National Leagues:</span><br /> Only the ball was white

This year, 2020, is the 100th birthday of the Negro National Leagues. Not Major League Baseball’s National League, but the…

August 14, 2020

End federal executions, racist death penalty!

In just four days, the U.S. government doubled to six the number of federal executions since Congress reauthorized the federal…

July 20, 2020

Texas death penalty under fire after cruel treatment of mourners

While executions are nothing unusual in Texas, the state outdid itself last week. It not only executed Billy Wardlow, but…

July 14, 2020

Federal executions set to resume before Republicans convene

The federal government plans to execute four people this summer in Terre Haute, Ind., even though the condemned prisoners have…

July 9, 2020

Legacy of Shaka Sankofa lives

Twenty years ago, as he lay beaten and bruised on a gurney, just minutes before being executed by the state…

June 30, 2020

Black Lives Matter in Bastrop, Texas

With the whole world exploding in support of the Black Lives Matter movement that is sweeping through large U.S. cities…

June 19, 2020

COVID-19 hot spot

Houston The National Black United Front in Houston toured the Harris County Jail on May 19, Malcolm X’s 95th birthday,…

June 13, 2020

Political Prisoners Teach-In: ‘Greetings from Texas, death penalty capital’

These slightly edited remarks were given April 24 at the “U.S. Empire vs. Political Prisoners” webinar teach-in sponsored by Mobilization4Mumia…

May 19, 2020

‘The real criminals are not in prison’

The following excerpted remarks were made by Gloria Rubac, a longtime Texas anti-death penalty activist, on an April 9 Workers…

April 21, 2020

Prisoners resist execution by virus

On a good day, most of the 5,000 prisons and jails in the U.S. are filthy hellholes. Medical care is…

April 7, 2020