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.
It’s capitalism, baby…
Corporate America and white supremacists have waged merciless war against the Black megapolis that dared to nurture revolutionaries and great music.
This week readers were thinking about the myths of racial progress, finance capital and primaries, the pandemic in Haiti, and the possibilities of revolution.
We need to understand mutual aid work as part and parcel to the work of all radical organizing.
The zeitgeist of Black literature shifted in the past decade, from Black progress to precarity.
