“In terms of the front pages of major newspapers in this country, police brutality has not been covered to the degree it was in the aftermath of the killing of Michael Brown and Eric Garner and others,” said Larry Hamm, chairman of the People’s Organization for Progress (POP), in Newark, New Jersey. POP, which was founded 37 years ago, last week held its 70th weekly protest against police brutality. “We have to keep demonstrating, we have to keep fighting, in order to keep public attention on the issue,” said Hamm.
The law holds that just one person, crossing a state line with the intent to do or participate in mischief, can be prosecuted.
Rasberry asks how the history of totalitarianism looks from the vantage point of the colonized and the racially subjugated.
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Young men in Niger meet at fadas to figure out what to do with their lives under uncaring global capitalism.
This teacher has Black liberation on the menu: from Mau Mau and African communists, to Biko, Nkrumah and Fanon.
