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ESSAY: The New Pimps or, It’s Hip to be Black: The Failure of Black Studies, Don L. Lee, 1971
04 Sep 2024
Was Black Studies doomed to fail? Revisiting a critical take on its origins.
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REPORT: “The People Who Were Left to Die:” Horrors Suffered by Orleans Parish Prisoners in Wake of Katrina, ACLU, 2006
28 Aug 2024
Remembering the terrible plight of the incarcerated during Hurricane Katrina.
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POEM: Apologies to All the People in Lebanon, June Jordan, 1982
21 Aug 2024
June Jordan’s painful apology for US complicity in zionist terrorism in Lebanon, and against the Palestinian people.
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SPEECH: Address to the AIPAC Policy Conference, Kamala Harris, 2017
14 Aug 2024
Kamala Harris: Your Auntie, AIPAC’s servant.
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ESSAY: On the Question of Political Prisoners, Safiya Bukhari,1995
07 Aug 2024
To commemorate Black August, read Safiya Bukhari's essay on political prisoners and political movements. Her words resonate today.
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ESSAY: In Our Hands: Thoughts on Black Music, Bernice Johnson Reagon, 1976
31 Jul 2024
For the late Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, Black music was a tool in the struggle for Black liberation, and not what it has mostly become today: a retrograde appendage to neoliberalism and white power.
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CHAPTER: The Ford Foundation and Black Power, Robert L. Allen, 1968
24 Jul 2024
The late Robert L. Allen broke down the dialectics of Black elite co-option and counter-revolution. Hello, Kamala.
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TRANSCRIPT: Analyzing the Correct Method in Combating American Fascism, George Jackson, 1971
17 Jul 2024
Martyred Black Panther, George Jackson told us long ago that fascism has been the de facto political state of the US for some time. Today we can clearly see that both Trump and Biden are, quite…
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TESTIMONY: Opposition to Military Assistance Act of 1949, W. E. B. Du Bois, 1949
10 Jul 2024
On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the founding of NATO, we reprint W.E.B. Du Bois’ 1949 powerful testimony against the US militarization of Europe and the world.
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ESSAY: Assassinations at Home and Abroad, Jemima Pierre, 2012
03 Jul 2024
The US Supreme Court’s decision to grant the President of the United States “absolute immunity” merely codifies criminal behavior by all US presidents. Take, for example, Barack Obama’s assassination…