Racism and Self-Determination

‘Sleep out for justice’ for Kevin Davis

Feb. 4 would have been Kevin Davis’ 45th birthday. The popular restaurant worker and beloved brother and uncle was killed…

February 11, 2015

Drop charges on ‘Black Friday 14’!

On so-called Black Friday 2014, considered the busiest shopping day of the year one day after “Thanksgiving,” 14 Black activists pulled off…

February 9, 2015

African-American jockeys battle racism

The Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2013.  It  opened in 1863, and became a…

February 9, 2015

Louisiana’s African slave revolt of 1811

Some writers today note that an often hidden and misrepresented anti-slavery rebellion in 1811 along the German Coast in Louisiana…

February 6, 2015

African Burial Ground exposes slavery

Yes, slavery existed in the North, too. New York was one of the largest centers of slaveholding in the U.S.…

February 5, 2015

The right to rebel: The case of Ahmed Evans

Part 1: How the Glenville Rebellion briefly won community control in 1968 On July 23, 1968, a gun battle between…

February 5, 2015

Another legal victory for Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox

Albert Woodfox, one of the Angola 3 political prisoners, has spent 42 years in solitary confinement in Louisiana. On Nov.…

February 5, 2015

Oakland, Calif., WWP hosts resistance fighters

Oakland, Calif. -- At a Workers World Party meeting here on Jan. 31, Imani Henry asked the audience, "How do…

February 3, 2015

Baltimore PPA protests new killings by cops

Within a two-day period in late January, the Baltimore City Police Department shot two Black people, killing one of them.…

February 2, 2015

Atlanta cop kills 911 caller

Atlanta -- Kevin Davis’ family and friends are in disbelief and sorrow. How could police have shot and killed Davis,…

February 2, 2015