Major League Baseball’s recent moves to recognize the contributions of the Negro league teams they once excluded amount to only “the beginning stages of any kind of restitutive or reparative justice and wouldn’t even come close to restoring” the Black players and teams to their proper place in history, said Josh Myers, professor of Afro American Studies at Howard University. “Baseball was not just a pastime for Black people,” said Myers. “It was on the baseball diamond where community was forged, where people came together” during American apartheid.
The U.S. effort to destabilize Nicaragua is an ongoing crime against that nation's people. Anti-imperialists must defend their right to self-determination.
Ten years ago Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton led the US/NATO war crime that destroyed the Libyan state and murdered its leader.
Five years after PROMESA was signed into law which established the control of the Fiscal Control Board over the island’s economy, conditions in Puerto Rico are worse than ever before.
French president Emmanuel Macron ensnares African nations in risky privatization schemes, a continuation of the colonial relationship.
Colin Powell's death is an opportunity to question the inclination to respect the Black face in a high place. Powell's career includes a litany of crimes that must never be excused.
