Racism and Self-Determination

SF cops gun down Guatemalan immigrant

Amilcar Pérez-López, 21 years old and a Guatemalan immigrant, was killed by two undercover San Francisco police officers in front…

March 9, 2015

Rally assails police killings in California

Over 50 family members of Black and Latino youth killed by Long Beach and Anaheim police departments and their supporters…

March 8, 2015

Dominicans join Haitians to protest lynching

Haitian and Dominican organizations in New York held a rally at noon and later a vigil at the Consulate of…

March 8, 2015

Civil rights activist denied appeal bond

A motions hearing in Berrien County, Mich., on Feb. 27 denied bond to imprisoned community leader Rev. Edward Pinkney, pending…

March 6, 2015

Oscars & mass incarceration show why BLACK LIVES MATTER

On Feb. 24, two days shy of the third anniversary of the vigilante murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, an African…

March 4, 2015

Cops attack unity rally — against police brutality

Bridgeton, N.J. -- A peaceful protest against police brutality outside the Cumberland County courthouse here on Feb. 28 was disrupted…

March 3, 2015

Justice for Tamir Rice and Tanisha Anderson

It has been over three months since Cleveland police brutally murdered two people in one month — 12-year old Tamir…

February 28, 2015

Black Women’s Lives Matter

The following article, slightly edited, is reprinted here courtesy of Red Flag, the publication of the militant youth group FIST…

February 28, 2015

Lorraine Hansberry: Political activist, artist

It is 50 years since Lorraine Hansberry, a renowned playwright and political activist on the left, died on Jan. 12,…

February 28, 2015

March condemns killing of immigrant worker by cops

Pasco, Wash. -- Within days after farmworker Antonio Zambrano-Montes was killed by Pasco police, his murder was seen by over…

February 26, 2015