Racism and Self-Determination

Protests against police brutality continue coast to coast

Demonstrations to protest racist police killings and to assert “Black Lives Matter” have continued strong throughout the United States since…

December 21, 2014

George Stinney’s life mattered

The current national uprising against police terror sweeping the U.S., following the murders of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, is…

December 21, 2014

Eric Garner killed by police and capitalism

It is an outrage that Eric Garner was killed by a wolfpack of racist cops and a chokehold. It is…

December 21, 2014

Growing incarceration rates for African Americans

Beyond police bullets and chokeholds Since the police killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., on Aug. 9, and…

December 18, 2014

Meeting in Harlem says Black lives matter, from Ferguson to West Africa

Harlem, N.Y. -- An all day rainstorm could not keep people from attending a Solidarity Rally Against Ebola, Stigma and…

December 18, 2014

Athletes break their silence

The current national uprising against police violence dominates the U.S. political terrain. The revolt began with the Ferguson, Mo., rebellion,…

December 17, 2014

Court rules for Albert Woodfox, now let him go!

Forty-two years in solitary confinement is 42 years too long. Albert Woodfox should be released now from a Louisiana prison.…

December 17, 2014

No let up in fight to stop police killings in Cleveland

Since the killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice on Nov. 22 by a white Cleveland police officer, the movement against racist…

December 17, 2014

Durham youth vs. cops

We live in a society where cops can kill an unarmed Black man, and the only person that gets indicted…

December 17, 2014

Mass marches affirm that ‘Black Lives Matter’

The four-month uprising against police violence received a tremendous boost on Dec. 13 — a national day of actions called…

December 16, 2014