Racism and Self-Determination

Can reforms stop police terror in Chicago?

It took the U.S. Department of Justice 13 months to determine what everyone in Chicago already knows -- that the…

January 16, 2017

Dr. King’s Legacy: Linking struggle at home and abroad relevant today

When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967, he denounced…

January 14, 2017

Chicago and racist oppression

This is a violent capitalist country. Shootings, beatings, murders occur every day. It is historical fact, beginning with the war…

January 10, 2017

Alabama resists racist Cabinet nominee

Two dozen members of the Alabama NAACP occupied the office of U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions in Mobile, Ala., on Jan.…

January 9, 2017

Don’t call the police on poverty

Durham, N.C. - I arrived at the Durham Co-op Market the morning of Jan. 2, 2017, for coffee and to…

January 9, 2017

New coalition forms to resist fascist attacks

Detroit - While the political basis for fascist activity has long existed within the imperialist system dominant in the U.S.,…

January 9, 2017

Protesters at football events say #NoDAPL

Two important protests against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline near Standing Rock, N.D., gained national attention during football-related…

January 4, 2017

Retrial set for killer cop in Charleston, S.C.

In Charleston, S.C., on April 4, 2015, Michael Slager, a white cop, killed Walter Scott, an African-American man, by shooting…

January 4, 2017

A crack in the wall of death

For Dylann Roof, the next few days and weeks of his young life will prove his most memorable. That’s saying…

January 4, 2017

#J20 mass protests planned: FIGHT TRUMP!

Jan. 1 -- People are organizing all over the United States to go to Washington, D.C., on Friday, Jan. 20,…

January 3, 2017