Racism and Self-Determination

Panther 21 hero Afeni Shakur, presente!

Afeni Shakur died at the age of 69 on May 2. On April 2, 1969, 21 members of the Harlem…

May 11, 2016

Resistance to racist police attacks grows

Baltimore has become a national focus of protests against racist police murders and attacks. Here, Baltimore activists describe three recent…

May 11, 2016

Yale’s racist roots and reparations

The brutal murder of nine African Americans at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., in June…

May 8, 2016

Milwaukee ‘Dontre Day’

On the two-year anniversary of the killing of Dontre Hamilton by a Milwaukee cop, hundreds marched and rallied April 30…

May 8, 2016

Justice for Jovan!

By Andrea Bañuelos and Tommy Cavanaugh Rockford, Ill. Dozens of family and community members marched in downtown Rockford on May…

May 6, 2016

Strikers hunger for justice

San Francisco, May 1 — Five hunger strikers, angered by ongoing police murders of Black and Brown people, have been occupying…

May 6, 2016

N.C. rural community fights killing of Black youth by racist state trooper

Kinston, N.C. -- The murders of Black youth at the hands of police, state troopers and county sheriff’s officers is not…

May 3, 2016

A revolutionary’s tribute to Prince

On the morning of April 21, the musician Prince, born Prince Rogers Nelson on June 7, 1958, was found slumped…

May 2, 2016

‘Don’t vote for Hillary — she’s killing Black people’

Philadelphia -- Members of the Racial, Economic and Legal Justice Coalition and Black Lives Matter disrupted a Hillary Clinton campaign event…

May 1, 2016

Court obstructs justice in Akai Gurley case

For a brief time last February, there was hope that, at last, Black lives do matter, when a jury convicted…

May 1, 2016