Racism and Self-Determination

The ‘Scottsboro Boys’: A horrific travesty of justice

Eighty-two years after their arrests, the last three of the innocent “Scottsboro Boys,” Charles Weems, Andy Wright and Haywood Patterson,…

December 12, 2013

International Revolutionary Day honors Fred Hampton

Chicago, Dec. 4 — Every year on this day, Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the Prisoners of Conscience Committee/Black Panther…

December 11, 2013

Black youth arrested by racist cops in Rochester, N.Y.

Police officers arrested three Black teens as they were standing outside a store in downtown Rochester, N.Y., on Nov. 27.…

December 11, 2013

Philly youth demand “Free Mumia, end education cuts & mass incarceration!’

While dozens of schools close, incarceration of youth of color continues to increase, and the Black youth unemployment rate jumps to around…

December 11, 2013

New York protesters slam de Blasio’s choice to head NYPD

Dec. 9 — People came out on a day’s notice in freezing weather to protest New York Mayor-elect Bill de…

December 11, 2013

Fighting for people’s power

  Talk given at the 2013 WWP conference by Larry Hales. What drives us as revolutionaries is our ability to…

December 9, 2013

Film review: “12 Years a Slave” illustrates horrors of U.S. slavery

Africans were enslaved by Britain and the United States in continental North America for nearly 250 years (1619-1865). The profits…

December 3, 2013

A message for the brown kids

This is for the brown kids. This is for the free and reduced breakfast club. This is for my loudmouth…

December 2, 2013

Charges filed in killing of Renisha McBride

A Dearborn Heights, Mich., homeowner, Theodore P. Wafer, has been charged with second-degree murder in the Nov. 2 shooting death…

December 2, 2013

Racist cops protested

Vile racism is on the rise in metropolitan Detroit. First, there was the seemingly cold- blooded shooting death of young…

December 2, 2013