Voters in mostly Black Jackson, Mississippi, will decide on June 6 whether Antar Lumumba will succeed his father, the veteran activist and lawyer Chokwe Lumumba, who died during his first year in the mayorās office in 2014. Antar Lumumba won the Democratic primary with 56 percent of the vote. āIf we canāt turn out the Black working class, then we are in trouble,ā said Kali Akuno, of Cooperation Jackson and the Lumumba campaign. Jackson, the state capital, faces challenges of gentrification, high municipal debt, āthreats of the privatization of our water system, and loss of our school system to a state takeover,ā said Akuno.
Arrests of members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front are the latest in a decades-long effort to criminalize the left and to make examples of anyone who might fit the profile of being a "ā¦
An end-of-the-year radical Black reading list from the editors of The Black Agenda Review.
"Army of Artists (For My Friend Horace Silver)" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer questions about their book. This weekās featured author is Ben Passmore. Passmore is the author of the ongoing comic book series Daygloayhole, asā¦
āAnti-Communism Weekā is a legal blueprint for crushing dissent. By labeling social justice activism as terrorism and empowering a new national task force, the state is preparing for the most intenseā¦
