Historian, author and activist Paul Street has high praise for James Forman Jr.ās new book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. Forman is a professor at Yale Law School and a former public defender in Washington, DC. His book āfills a giant hole in the literature,ā illuminating the role played by āBlack elites in the rise of the mass incarceration system,ā said Street, himself an expert on race and the U.S. penal system. āMany ordinary, working class Black voters in the 70s and 80s have actively supported the racially disparate war on crime and drugs that ended up producing racist mass incarceration,ā said Street, whose latest book is titled They Rule: The 1% v. Democracy.
Joe Biden had a moment of truth when he promised the oligarchs that nothing would fundamentally change if he became president. He kept his promise, and so will all those who come after him unlessā¦
The Black Alliance for Peace released a statement in solidarity with the people of Gaza and all Palestinians under occupation in the racist, apartheid settler state of Israel.
The current political turbulence in Franceās former colonies in Africa can perhaps be understood as the continuation of an unfinished project of decolonization.
No one better exemplifies the Democratic Partyās overarching identity politics than California Governor Gavin Newsom.
For the tenth time in the last 30 years, the United Nations vote to authorize an occupation of Haiti.
