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Cop City: Racist police terror continues in Atlanta

March 4, 2023 Lev Koufax
Almost three years ago, two Atlanta police officers executed Rayshard Brooks, an unarmed 27-year-old Black father of two, in a Wendy’s parking lot. In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, the two cops were fired […]
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Hey Joe Rogan, who built the White House? How Black workers made the United States rich

March 1, 2023 Stephen Millies
One of the biggest lies of capitalist propaganda is that Black people “live off” white workers. This racist falsehood has been used for decades to justify cutbacks that hurt all poor and working people. It […]
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No matter the color of the lash, the whip of racism remains intact

February 9, 2023 John Parker
It’s Black History Month. Time to reflect on, hopefully, the progress made for people of African ethnicity, especially in the U.S. However, a brief history of repression by police attempts to kill our hope. Since […]
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Footage of the death of Brieon Green shows gross neglect by Milwaukee County sheriff’s office

December 8, 2022 FightBack! News
Milwaukee, Dec. 6 — After over five months of struggle, the Waukesha Sheriff’s Department, which led the investigation into Brieon Green’s death at Milwaukee County Jail, concluded their investigation and handed the related materials to […]
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James Baldwin, corporate media and the red herring of ‘Black antisemitism’

November 22, 2022 Lev Koufax
In 1967, the great African American writer James Baldwin wrote an article that explored the relationship between the Jewish and Black communities, and in particular, the justified anger the Black community felt towards Jewish landlords […]
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Brooklyn, N.Y., rally: Resistance and reparations!

August 22, 2022 Stephen Millies
“When will we be paid for the work we’ve done?” That great song by the Staples Sisters roared out in Restoration Plaza in Brooklyn, New York’s Bedford-Stuyvesant community on Aug. 17. “Resistance and Reparations” were […]
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Baltimore protest demands justice for Jayland Walker

July 12, 2022 Struggle-La Lucha Baltimore bureau
Baltimore, July 9 – The Peoples Power Assembly held a protest demanding justice for Jayland Walker — gunned down in a hail of 60+ bullets by Akron, Ohio, cops —  at the Douglas Homes Projects […]
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Justice for Jayland Walker and Randy Cox!

July 4, 2022 Stephen Millies
UPDATE: Akron, Ohio, police threw tear gas canisters and stun grenades against people demanding justice for Jaylord Walker. Meanwhile the eight cops who killed Walker with dozens of bullets continue to get paid. The war […]
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“What to the slave is the 4th of July?” read by Danny Glover

July 4, 2022 Struggle - La Lucha
Actor Danny Glover reads abolitionist Frederick Douglass’s “Fourth of July Speech, 1852” on October 5, 2005 in Los Angeles, California. Part of a reading from Voices of a People’s History of the United States (Howard […]
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From Buffalo to Uvalde: Racism, violence come from the top

May 27, 2022 John Parker
From Buffalo, New York, to Uvalde, Texas, it all comes from the top. It comes from the top and trickles down to us in bullets and death. That’s the reality in a capitalist country that […]