Racism and Self-Determination

Critical hearing for Mumia Abu-Jamal

Dec. 16 — Supporters and family of Pennsylvania political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal filled the courtroom and demonstrated outside the Philadelphia…

December 16, 2022

‘The Mumia exception’

Philadelphia For 41 years, journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal has been unjustly imprisoned for the murder of a Philadelphia police officer. His…

December 15, 2022

Can Brittney Griner’s release expose U.S. hypocrisy on prisons?

As the majority of the world knows by now, Brittney Griner, a star player with the Women’s National Basketball Association’s…

December 13, 2022

U.N. steps in with amicus brief in Mumia Abu-Jamal’s case

The United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent filed an amicus brief Dec. 6 with Philadelphia…

December 13, 2022

Indigenous leader exposes racist myth of ‘Thanksgiving’

The following edited remarks were made by Kimimilasha James, co-leader of United American Indians of New England, at the 53rd…

December 9, 2022

Forces behind the escalation of anti-Semitism

Ever since extreme right-wing multibillionaire Elon Musk bought Twitter on Oct. 27, there has been an alarming increase of anti-Semitic…

December 6, 2022

All out for Mumia Abu-Jamal Dec. 9

Political prisoner and author Mumia Abu-Jamal was arrested 41 years ago on Dec. 9, 1981. He has been held captive…

December 5, 2022

Musk the Knife arrasa en Twitter

El estándar de pop y jazz “Mack the Knife”, tomado de “La ópera de tres centavos” de Bertolt Brecht y…

December 5, 2022

Staughton Lynd: lifelong advocate for liberation

Longtime anti-racist and antiwar activist turned labor lawyer, Staughton Lynd died Nov. 17, five days before his 93rd birthday. Born…

December 2, 2022

Free Leonard Peltier and all Native prisoners

The slightly edited article first appeared online Oct. 13, 2021.  During the era of colonial theft and conquest, North America…

December 2, 2022