Author: Stephen Millies

Alvin Kinnard was jailed for nearly 36 years in Alabama for allegedly stealing $50.75 from a bakery. His real crime was being Black and poor. Kinnard was 22 years old when he was sentenced to […]

July 14 is Bastille Day. On that date in 1789 tens of thousands of poor people in Paris attacked a hated prison called the Bastille and began the French Revolution. The continual intervention of poor […]

Deamonte Driver didn’t have to die. An abscessed tooth led to the 12-year-old Black youth’s death on Feb. 25, 2007.  Deamonte’s mother, Alyce Driver, worked two jobs. But her pay was so low that she […]

Over 500 people came to Philadelphia’s City Hall on July 4 to demand that Mumia Abu-Jamal be freed. It was the largest action inside Philadelphia for the imprisoned revolutionary Black writer in years. Every July […]

Over 20 million workers are unemployed in the United States. That’s a catastrophe. Joblessness hasn’t been this high since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Extended unemployment benefits under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic […]

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo doesn’t think the statue of Christopher Columbus in New York City’s Columbus Circle should be removed. Cuomo said that the statue “represents in some ways the Italian American legacy in […]

Shaka Sankofa was executed 20 years ago on June 22, 2000. Texas governor and future president, George W. Bush, conducted the legal lynching in Huntsville. Sankofa spent half his life on death row. He was […]