In an essay for Prison Radio, Mumia Abu Jamal, who was a radio journalist before he was imprisoned in the death of a Philadelphia policeman, noted that Wretch of the Earth author Franz Fanon was also a “revolutionary journalist.” Fanon’s reporting for the Algerian revolutionary press from 1957 to 1960, and his 1964 collection Towards the African Revolution “condemns Arab and African collaborators and dissects how French forces used torture to intimidate the Algerian resistance,” said the nation’s best known political prisoner.
The historical record on U.S. human rights policies, both domestic and international, is one of hypocrisy, deceit, and denigration.
Black NBA players, writes Ann Garrison, are just beginning to understand the power of the attention and admiration they command.
Is this Deja Vu— Step1 and Step 2? The long, long lines breaking with 12 years of Reaganite reaction in ’92 Slick Willy’s $campaign—his sax-
Osaka’s statement must be seen as part of a radical tradition too often redacted from sports history.
Rich white capitalists may be donating millions to Black Lives Matter, but they’re also funding and praising nonsense like Kendi’s babblings on race and capitalism.
