Racism and Self-Determination

Activists confront NYC mayor over killer cops

New York -- A flying squad of activists from New Yorkers Against Bratton confronted Mayor Bill de Blasio as he left the…

August 6, 2014

Eric Garner to occupied Palestine: A common enemy & struggle

Against the illuminating backdrop of the Dred Scott Decision of 1857, there exists disturbing parallels between the cowardly New York…

July 29, 2014

Staten Island, N.Y., protest demands ’Justice for Eric Garner!’

More than 100 people gathered July 26 to protest the brutal killing-on-video of Eric Garner in Staten Island, N.Y. They…

July 29, 2014

Brooklyn, N.Y.: ’No to gentrification’

The Equality for Flatbush Project held a “Save Affordable Housing/Fight Gentrification Visibility Day” on July 19 to demand an end…

July 22, 2014

Hundreds protest cop killing of 13-year-old

Santa Rosa, Calif. -- Over 300 people came here on July 12 from all over the San Francisco Bay Area…

July 16, 2014

Mississippi after 50 years: The struggle keeps on . . .

Jackson, Miss. -- Freedom Summer changed the course of U.S. history in 1964, when more than 1,000 students and youth,…

July 3, 2014

Central Park 5 talk about settlement

On June 19, 2014, twelve years after the filing of a lawsuit by the Central Park 5 — five innocent…

June 30, 2014

Benton Harbor activist appeals for support in fight against frame-up

The Rev. Edward Pinkney of the Benton Harbor/Berrien County Black Autonomy Network Community Organization (BANCO) spoke in Detroit at the…

June 30, 2014

Moral Mondays goes statewide in N.C.

By Ben C. and Andy Katz Raleigh, N.C., June 29 — As the short North Carolina legislative session winds down…

June 30, 2014

A tribute to ‘Ancestors of the Middle Passage’

Brooklyn, N.Y. -- On June 14 from noon to sunset, the 25th annual “Tribute to Our Ancestors of the Middle…

June 27, 2014