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Trump, racism and capitalism
Aug. 4 — Let there be no mistake about it. Donald Trump has the blood of all the killed and wounded in the mass shootings of the past week on his hands, from Gilroy, Calif., […]
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Black Mississippians respond to the ICE raids conducted in Mississippi on August 7, 2019
We, as descendants of enslaved African people, stand here today in solidarity, in determination, and in righteous outrage at the unwarranted and heavy-handed actions of the federal government. On August 7th, 2019, hundreds of ICE […]
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Klansmen in the White House
California Gov. Ronald Reagan was angry that the most populous country in the world―the People’s Republic of China―had finally taken its rightful seat in the United Nations in 1971. But he was furious at the […]
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From the Terrible Transformation to the Creation of the Negro: A Black Socialist Analysis of the First Century of Slavery in North America
In Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America, the late popular historian Lerone Bennett refers to the African captives who arrived in Jamestown in 1619 as immigrants. “An estimated million of these slaves found […]
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Eric Garner will be avenged
The whole world saw New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo use an illegal chokehold to strangle Eric Garner to death. Millions of people were angered by the video taken by Ramsey Orta in which […]
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Then and now: The issue is racism
The fascist campaign against congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib is reminiscent of how racists drove Harlem Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. out of Congress 50 years ago. In the 1930s, […]
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Trump’s attack on The Squad is an attack on all workers
“Go back where you came from” is one of the oldest slurs directed at oppressed workers. This slogan — with its implied threat of deportation — denies and hides the very long history of U.S. […]
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Field Marshall Coltrane Chimurenga, ¡Presente!
Two hundred people came to the historic House of Lord Church in Brooklyn, N.Y., on June 20 for a memorial tribute to Field Marshall Coltrane Chimurenga. Comrade Chimurenga was a leader of the December 12th […]
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Malcolm X Day Community Celebration held in San Diego
Malcolm X Library honored El Hajj Malik Shabazz on May 18, the eve of his 94th birthday. This Fourth Annual Malcolm X Day Community Celebration was organized by the Malcolm X Day Organizing Committee, chaired […]
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4 years after mysterious death, Sandra Bland’s cell phone provides answers
Sandra Bland was arrested in Prairie View, Texas, in July 2015. She was driving on a rural road traveling to a new job at her alma mater, Prairie View A&M, a historical Black university after […]