Racism and Self-Determination

Wall Street calls shots at DNC: Protests rock convention

Teresa Gutierrez is campaign manager for the Workers World Party 2016 presidential election candidates and long-time immigrant rights activist. The…

August 3, 2016

Court rejects appeal of Michigan rights leader

On July 26, the Michigan Court of Appeals rejected the appeal of political prisoner Rev. Edward Pinkney. Convicted in Berrien…

August 1, 2016

‘No Trump. No KKK. No Racist Fascist USA!’

Roanoke, Va. In one of the largest protests in recent Roanoke history, a diverse rainbow of community members sent a…

August 1, 2016

Syracuse: Black Lives Matter resists police threats

Syracuse, N.Y. On the evening of July 28, longtime community activist Maurice “Mo” Crawley was working as a Syracuse neighborhood…

August 1, 2016

Movement for Black Lives organizers occupy NYC City Hall Park

Millions March NYC began an occupation of New York’s City Hall Park the morning of Aug. 1. Organizers say they…

August 1, 2016

MOVEMENT FOR BLACK LIVES: Defund and disempower the police!

On July 20-21, the Movement for Black Lives, a coalition of the three organizations — Black Lives Matter, the Black…

July 27, 2016

People’s Power Assemblies: ‘A people’s movement for Black lives’

Statement issued by the People’s Power Assemblies of New York City on Dallas and the future of our movement, which…

July 27, 2016

Stay in the streets

July 26, 6 p.m. -- The DNC Black Resistance March this afternoon streamed out of North Philadelphia, a neighborhood of…

July 26, 2016

Athletes show wide support for BLM

The Republican National Convention, which nominated the white supremacist, fascistic Donald Trump as its presidential candidate, has added fire under…

July 26, 2016

Black and Brown unity: a powerful force

Karl Marx wrote that the capitalist class would create its own gravediggers. Black and Brown folks will assuredly be some…

July 26, 2016