Racism and Self-Determination

Undocumented students take over Regents meeting

Atlanta -- In a bold action, Georgia undocumented youth and their allies entered the meeting room of the Board of Regents…

May 19, 2016

San Francisco student hunger strikers win ethnic studies agreement

Four hunger strikers — Hassani Bell, Ahkeel Andres Mestayer, Julia Retzlaff and Sachiel Fredric Rosen — together with the Third…

May 18, 2016

Family, activists honor Joe Campos Torres

Almost 40 years after one of the most infamous and brutal Houston police killings, the family of Joe Campos Torres,…

May 18, 2016

Continuing the fight: Justice for Jovan!

After Valentia Fresco (aka Jovan Blake) was killed by Metro Enforcement security officers on April 16 in Rockford, Ill., his…

May 18, 2016

Protest calls for ending ‘death by incarceration’

A rally on May 6 called on Pennsylvania to end the legal sentence “juvenile life without parole” (JLWOP), also known…

May 12, 2016

#Frisco500 occupy City Hall

Inspired by the stamina of the “Frisco Five” hunger strikers, hundreds of chanting supporters occupied the rotunda and grand staircase…

May 11, 2016

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