Racism and Self-Determination

Why rebellion broke out in Detroit 50 years ago

Excerpts from an article published in Ghana News this July about the Detroit rebellion that erupted on July 23, 1967,…

August 3, 2017

A cop in the White House

Donald Trump gave a bone-chilling speech at Suffolk County Community College on Long Island, N.Y., on July 28, exposing the…

August 2, 2017

O.J. Simpson, domestic violence and the injustice system

Based on a talk given at a July 27 New York forum. Orenthal James Simpson, aka O.J. Simpson, is set…

July 29, 2017

Killer cops, racism and class rule

The disparity in how the media are handling the fatal shooting of a white woman in Minneapolis by a cop…

July 25, 2017

Ferguson activist Ashley Yates talks Oakland, Assata Shakur and Black Woman leadership

Ashley Yates is co-founder of the Ferguson-based grassroots organization, Millennial Activists United (MAU).  Originally from Florissant, Mo., Yates was one…

July 20, 2017

Newark, 50 years after ‘A rebellion, not a riot’

Over 100 people gathered on July 12 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Newark Rebellion against racism. People…

July 20, 2017

Los Angeles neighborhood self-defense stops cops

Los Angeles, July 14 -- Tonight in my neighborhood I witnessed yet another example of the police as the occupying…

July 17, 2017

Charlottesville, Va., acts to ‘Smash White Supremacy’

Thousands arrived in Charlottesville, Va., on July 8 to protest the Klan and their cop protectors. The city, under the…

July 17, 2017

Arab woman’s bakery assailed by Zionists and Islamophobes

Oakland, Calif. — Four Zionists blocked the entrance to Reem’s California Bakery here on July 8 in an effort to…

July 17, 2017

Take ‘em down NOLA fights to remove ALL racist monuments

The monuments that were taken down, as well as those remaining, were all constructed in what we would call the…

July 17, 2017