Protesters demanded that Medgar Evers College cancel Hillary Clintonâs scheduled commencement address at the mostly Black Brooklyn institution, next month. The Clintons are a criminal family, said Dahoud Andre, of Komokoda, the Committee to Mobilize Against Dictatorship in Haiti. If Medgar Evers College honors the former secretary of state, it will be condoning âthe crimes of the Clinton family, and Hillary Clinton, personally, against the people of Haiti and against Black youth, who she called âanimalsâ and âthugsâ who should be âbrought to heel,ââ said Andre.
Panamanians are in protest against a contract granted to a Canadian Mining Company. Black communities are particularly impacted by environmental degradation and displacement caused by open-pit mining.
The Kenyan government now demands that the United Nations pay for the deployment of a police force to Haiti. But Black face imperialism is the problem, not negotiations over money.
Workers around the world can play a role in mobilizing action against the apartheid Israeli state.
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This weekâs featured author is J. Brent Crosson. Crosson is Associate Professor of Religious Studies andâŚ
âYou belong to us, body and belongings, and we can dispose of them and do with you as we please.â Holy Roman Emperor Louis VI in 1343.
