Racism and Self-Determination

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

Syracuse, N.Y., Black Lives Matter protests police terror

Some 500 people challenged racism and police terror in Syracuse, N.Y., on July 18, in a militant, high-energy and unified…

July 22, 2016

Brooklyn, N.Y., forum fights gentrification

Gentrification and displacement are hitting neighborhoods hard, nowhere more so than Brooklyn, N.Y. Organizing against the impact of austerity programs…

July 22, 2016

Justice for Teo Valencia

Teo Valencia, a Mexican-American man, was shot in the back with an AR-15 semi-automatic assault rifle by an as yet…

July 22, 2016

DAY 15 – Is This What Democracy Looks Like?

A crowd of several hundred people moves down St. Clair Avenue in Cleveland, holding signs and chanting slogans.  They are…

July 21, 2016