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Colombian port workers in solidarity against police violence
by Unión Portuaria – translated and posted with permission Declaration Supporting the Movement Against Racism from the Port Workers Union, Buenaventura, Colombia: Black lives matter in Buenaventura!...
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Dream Defenders, Black Lives Matter and Ferguson reps take historic trip to...
Leaders from American racial justice movements connect with Palestinians living under occupation by Kristian Davis Bailey Representatives at the forefront of the movements for Black lives and racial...
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From Selma to San Francisco, BlackLivesMatter from 1963 to 2015
Students of the Revolutionary Youth Media Education (RYME) class at Deecolonize Academy haven been learning, writing and living police terror and resistance as children of Black, Brown and poor...
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Graduate students host teach-in to address institutionalized racism at UC...
by Erika O’Bannon, Ariana Allensworth and Amina Mohabbat Berkeley – A contingent of 60 graduate students led a teach-in and mediation at UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare on Tuesday, Feb. 24, in...
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Serena Williams is today’s Muhammad Ali
As a political symbol and an athletic powerhouse, Serena Williams is ‘the greatest’ in her sport by Dave Zirin There are numerous articles – terrific articles – defending Serena Williams against the...
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Seven things we learned from Thabo Sefolosha’s trial
by Dave Zirin After just under an hour of deliberation, a Manhattan jury acquitted Atlanta Hawks guard Thabo Sefolosha of misdemeanor charges ranging from obstructing government administration and...
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‘To Protect and Serve Who?’ Mumia’s new pamphlet on organizing to abolish...
by Suzanne Ross Internationally renowned political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal has just published a brilliant 15-page pamphlet about the challenge of the period we’re living in in this country: the...
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The man beaten and choked at a Donald Trump rally tells his story
by Alice Ollstein When activist Mercutio Southall Jr. was curled up on the ground getting kicked, punched and choked by Donald Trump supporters at a campaign rally in Birmingham, Alabama, he thought:...
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Cuban National Assembly member Kenia Serrano speaks on diplomatic...
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Recently there has been a warming of international relations between the imperial giant in the Western Hemisphere, the United States, and the revolutionary...
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UN committee urges US government to pay reparations for slavery
A United Nations panel of human rights activists has urged the United States’ government to pay reparations to the descendants of Africans who were brought to the U.S. as slaves. The committee blamed...
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Sen. Sanders, Big Pharma’s greed is killing 3 million Hep C sufferers,...
by Oakland Teachers for Mumia and Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Sen. Sanders, you have spoken out against the depredations of Big Pharma, refused to take donations from any of them,...
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Families of police victims come together in Bay Area for Oscar Grant Legacy...
by Cephus ‘Uncle Bobby’ Johnson, uncle of Oscar Grant The Oscar Grant Legacy Weekend was all about unity. Mothers of police victims from all over the country came together in mutual support, forming...
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Bill Clinton yells at Black Lives Matter protesters, defends violent crime bill
by Liz Fields Bill Clinton has a history of sometimes suffering from severe foot-in-mouth disease and veering dangerously off message while on the campaign trail for his wife, Hillary. On Thursday, a...
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Wanda’s Picks for May-June 2016
by Wanda Sabir Outstanding women leaders of the Black Panther era Elaine Brown’s “A Taste of Power,” a memoir which chronicles her leadership of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense when co-founder...
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Ethiopians protest in Israel, call for end to state racism and police violence
Hundreds of Black youth march in Tel Aviv after Netanyahu government fails to satisfy their demands. by David Sheen Ethiopian-Israeli activist Inbar Bugala gestures while a crowd of mostly...
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Thousands make deposits in Black-owned banks as a way to protest recent...
by Victor Cook OneUnited Bank President and COO Teri Williams, center, beams proudly at the unveiling of the mural on the OneUnited Bank in Liberty City, Miami, on July 11, 2015. “Our hope as an...
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Jalil Muntaqim: The 13th Amendment – prison slavery and mass incarceration
by Jalil Muntaqim Since the publication of Michelle Alexander’s excellent “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” the issue of prison and parole reform has been raised as...
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FBI gives green light to crack down on Black Lives Matter protesters – BLM...
Following this story is a Black Lives Matter statement on the murder of police and escalating protests to end state-sponsored violence against Black people by Mara Verheyden-Hilliard The violent events...
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Black August Memorial: an interview with Kasim Gero, Patuxent Prison
On FLEA Days, Tupac Shakur, Baltimore, Kwanzaa, women-comrades and the revolutionary experience of Black August by Emilia A. Ottoo Kasim O. Gero is currently housed as an inmate at the Patuxent...
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Police run feel-good PR campaign while criminalizing Black August
by Davey D Last week I was alerted to an inflammatory story from Bay Area ABC news reporter Dan Noyes that basically sought to disparage the Black August commemorations. The story noted that “police...
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