Racism and Self-Determination

Students lead campaign against Confederate statue at University of Mississippi

Oxford, Miss., March 9 -- A home-grown, student-led campaign delivered four powerful body blows to racism here at the University…

March 11, 2019

Ole Miss basketball players take a knee against racism

As the national anthem was being played on Feb. 23  in Oxford, Miss., before an Ole Miss at-home men’s college…

March 7, 2019

People of color & women make history with Hollywood awards

On Feb. 23, one day before the 91st Academy Awards (aka the Oscars) ceremony, Boots Riley, the African-American hip-hop artist…

March 7, 2019

Cruel and unusual punishment: Executions temporarily halted in Ohio

Anti-death penalty activists have been fighting for decades in an uphill battle to end the barbaric and racist practice of…

March 6, 2019

‘25 shots from the racist cops’: The police execution of Willie McCoy

It was late evening Feb. 9 when local African-American rapper Willie McCoy, 20, drove into a Taco Bell drive-through in…

March 5, 2019

Students fight institutionalized racism in Georgia

"I was livid, furious," said Elijah John, a Black student at Kennesaw State University after seeing his image used in…

February 28, 2019

Mumia speaks to Yale Rebel Lawyers

On Feb. 1, students at Yale Law School courageously rescinded their invitation to Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner to be…

February 28, 2019

The Green Book: Traveling while Black

The 400-year existence of Africans and their descendants in the U.S. can be summed up with a word like “exclusion.”…

February 26, 2019

‘A fabulous achievement’

Elliott Abrams, the architect of Ronald Reagan’s “dirty war” in Central America, is an undisputed war criminal and blatant liar.…

February 22, 2019

Seattle Black Lives Matter fights racism in schools

Black Lives Matter at School was held Feb. 4-8 and beyond at schools all across the U.S., including Seattle. This…

February 22, 2019