Racism and Self-Determination

Kaepernick: ‘This generation’s Muhammad Ali’

Last October, Colin Kaepernick, the African-American former quarterback for National Football League’s San Francisco 49ers, was asked after a game…

May 24, 2017

Release date set for Rev. Pinkney

The Michigan Board of Parole has announced that political prisoner the Rev. Edward Pinkney will be released on June 13.…

May 24, 2017

Trump confronted at school commencement

Protesters from Virginia and beyond confronted President Donald Trump and all he represents on May 13 at Liberty University in…

May 18, 2017

The FBI is a racist sewer

Longtime FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover hated the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and wanted him dead. Hoover called…

May 18, 2017

Black graduates disrupt Betsy DeVos

Close to half of the approximately 400 African-American graduates at the historically Black Mary Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Fla.,…

May 16, 2017

What is driving Sessions’ new ‘war on drugs’?

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on May 12 that the U.S. Department of “In-Justice” plans to overturn a 2013…

May 16, 2017

Adam Jones & Boston racism at Fenway Park

By mYia X & Phebe Eckfeldt Boston In April, Major League Baseball celebrated the 70th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking…

May 11, 2017

Appalachia says ‘NO’ to Nazis

Listening to West Virginia Public Radio on the way to work yesterday morning, I heard a piece about the “neo-Nazi”…

May 11, 2017

From Alton Sterling to Jordan Edwards, no justice, no peace!

There are many progressive struggles under capitalism, many connected to each other due to systemic inequality. Inside the U.S. --…

May 8, 2017

New Orleans: Mass rally confronts racists over Confederate monuments

Some 1,200 people came out on May 7 for a loud and proud “second line” celebration of the demand to…

May 8, 2017