While reading Mumia Abu-Jamal’s latest commentary, “After 100,000,” where he speaks about the increasing numbers of COVID-19 deaths, Mumia explains, “For Black folk this is a time of ineffable loss.” What he did not know […]
The New York Times headline declared: “U.S. unemployment worst since the Great Depression.” (New York Times, May 9, 2020, print edition) Actually, the Times report understated the unemployment numbers. In a press release, the […]
TRAYVON MARTIN (Walking home with iced tea and Skittles. Shot by George Zinneman, who was found not guilty.) KEITH SCOTT (Sitting in car, reading. Shot by police officer, who was not charged.) ATATIANA JEFFERSON (Looking […]
On Memorial Day 2020, four Minneapolis police brutally murdered George Floyd. Video of the killing quickly spread around the world. On May 26, some 20,000 people marched in Minneapolis, where they were confronted with a […]
What happens when the counter strikes 100,000? Nothing. One hundred thousand American dead; that means, for all intents and purposes, nothing much. For does the counter stop counting? Or does it continue rolling on like […]
The U.S. was established as a republic in 1787 and remains so to this day. It is a republic, but not a democracy. The American Revolution was not a bourgeois democratic one, like the great […]
May 24 — The first of five Iranian oil tankers, named Fortune, entered Venezuelan waters on Saturday night where it was received by the Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB). Its arrival was an event followed […]
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Message of solidarity for African Liberation Day 2020: A Virtual Event from May 23 to May 25, called by the Maryland Council of Elders, the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party and others. This year’s African Liberation […]
Capitalism is humiliation. Having to ask to go to the bathroom can be deeply humiliating. As a young girl, Julia Wright was escorted by a family friend, Constance Webb, to Manhattan’s Bergdorf Goodman department store. […]
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