Racism and Self-Determination

Campaigns largely ignore issues facing African Americans

Democratic Party candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are both making appeals to win over African-American voters during the final…

April 21, 2016

Philadelphia Day of Rage held despite arrests

Despite heavy-handed police repression against three leading organizers, members of the Philadelphia Coalition for R.E.A.L. (Racial, Economic And Legal) Justice…

April 21, 2016

‘Trump = hate + greed’

Syracuse, N.Y. -- Right-wing presidential candidate and billionaire Donald Trump brought his strategy of hate-and-divide to central and upstate New York.…

April 20, 2016

Baltimore protesters disrupt Clinton spectacle

Baltimore -- Activists from the People’s Power Assembly, the anti-police brutality movement and Workers World Party unfurled banners exposing Hillary Clinton’s…

April 20, 2016

Protesters demand justice for India Cummings

An angry crowd of protesters occupied the steps of the Erie County Holding Center in Buffalo, N.Y. on April 4,…

April 17, 2016

Thousands trash Trump’s bigoted message, take to streets against racism, for Akai Gurley and living wage

Thousands of people, including large contingents of striking Fight for $15 workers, took to the streets here against racism on…

April 15, 2016

Brooklyn, N.Y.: Ground zero for gentrification

Brooklyn is definitely ground zero for gentrification in New York City. Specific to Brooklyn is that rents have gone up…

April 14, 2016

Lowndes County, Ala.: Roots of revolution

Part 1: “Lowndes County: ‘The original Black Panther Party’” A revolutionary movement was born in 1966 in the tiny Alabama…

April 14, 2016

The racist criminalization of African Americans

When former President Bill Clinton spoke on April 7 in Philadelphia, protesters interrupted him, exposing Democrats’ role in the mass…

April 13, 2016

Protesters expose Clintons’ racism

Two protesters disrupted former President Bill Clinton while he spoke at a Hillary Clinton campaign event in North Philadelphia on…

April 12, 2016