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Protest demands justice for Marlyn Barnes

October 16, 2019 Lev Koufax
On Oct. 5, a few dozen activists with the Prisoner Solidarity Committee gathered outside the Harford County Detention Center in Bel Air, Md., to protest the untimely death of father of five Marlyn Barnes and […]
Chicago 1919

What did the unions do?

October 16, 2019 Stephen Millies
The long shadow of the Chicago race riot, Part 3 Up to the 1920s, Chicago was the center of the labor movement in the United States. It was the heart and soul of the eight-hour-day […]
Chicago 1919

Bombings greet the Great Migration

October 11, 2019 Stephen Millies
A fundamental change in the composition of the U.S. workforce was the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to Northern cities. With the outbreak of World War I, factory owners lost Eastern and […]
Chicago 1919

The long shadow of the 1919 Chicago race riot

October 8, 2019 Stephen Millies
First in a series A century ago, Chicago was convulsed by anti-Black riots. For days, African Americans were beaten and killed in a city whose first non-Indigenous resident was the Black man Jean Baptiste Point […]
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Justice for Dennis Carolino, end police terror in San Diego

October 7, 2019 Dennis Childs
It appeared to be a Saturday like any other in my East San Diego community of El Cerrito. I had just finished a run and was headed down the hill on Adelaide Avenue to my […]
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Resisting police abuse forum in Los Angeles

October 7, 2019 Jefferson Azevedo
On Sept. 21, the British documentary titled “The Hard Stop” was presented at the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice in Los Angeles, as part of a series of screenings through different cities in the […]
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Los Angeles: The revolutionary role of Black art and artists

September 30, 2019 Rebecka Jackson-Moeser
As part of an ongoing “The Black Aesthetic” community forum series, I interviewed Aleshea Harris at the Harriet Tubman Center in Los Angeles on Sept. 19. Harris is an accomplished writer in theater and film […]
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Oakland: Community organizes to stop racist stadium plan

September 27, 2019 Dave Welsh
Oakland, Calif., Sept. 15 — Led by the dockworkers union, members of Oakland’s Black community are organizing to stop a baseball stadium project from further gentrifying the city and pushing longtime Black residents out. “The […]
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El Paso, white supremacist terror and fascism

August 17, 2019 Sharon Black
We should remind ourselves that white supremacist terror is not new to U.S. soil. Historically, it has been intertwined with the development of capitalism. First with the theft of Indigenous lands and later with the […]
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San Diego commemorates Black August 2019

August 16, 2019 Gloria Verdieu
The Black August Organizing Committee has sponsored a Black August program for the last three years at San Diego’s Malcolm X Library and Performing Arts Center. This year is of particular significance because this is […]