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The late Harry Belafonte was a great artist and also a committed revolutionary.
Black Alliance for Peace reminds us that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
King said the best anti-poverty program is a union, where you can fight for your own agenda — somebody doesn’t have to hand it to you.
King explicitly linked the value of human dignity to the material conditions necessary to enable people to live a decent life.
Each year in January as King is honored in the eyes of the public, there is little mention of the demands of the man and his mission: his fight for
New Jersey was the site of a young Dr King’s very first formal protest and lawsuit, but the state refuses to recognize the events.
King believed humanity could achieve a “higher synthesis” that rose above the social relations of capitalism and communism.
MLK was dreaming of a socialist future long before the tumultuous decade of the Sixties.
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Black Agenda Report's late Executive Editor, Glen Ford, gave this interview a decade after Hurricane Katrina to explore how the narrative of "starting over" is being used to whitewash the forced…
Twenty years ago, the world witnessed more than the suffering of hurricane Katrina's victims. The United States was exposed as a failed state controlled by the cruelties of racialized capitalism.
“It’s not like New Orleans was caught off guard. This could have been prevented.”
