In this week’s segment, we hear about how the Black mayor of Buffalo, New York targeted Black and Latinx communities to raise revenue with traffic citations which resulted in a civil rights lawsuit challenging the practice. But first, we discuss the recent election in South Africa with a representative of the South African Communist Party. The African National Congress (ANC) lost its parliamentary majority and must now form a coalition government without jeopardizing its history of fighting for the liberation of African people.
Frank Chapman is Executive Director of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. That organization led the fight for community control of the police, with the creation of the…
On March 8,1971 a brave group of people revealed the extent of FBI spying, harassment and even the killings of US citizens. More than 50 years later we would do well to remember the significance of…
Revisiting a 1974 editorial on Black women and the international struggle against patriarchy, racism, imperialism, and capitalism on International Women’s Day.
In Africa as in the rest of the world, US machinations undermine its goals and bring other nations together as they seek to protect themselves from a desperate empire.
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