The Black Is Back Coalition held is annual march on the White House, followed by a national conference at Howard University. Among the speakers was Eritha Akile Cainion, a 20 year old activist with the African People’s Socialist Party who ran a spirited campaign for the St. Petersburg, Florida city council on the slogan, “Unity Through Reparations.” Dr. Marsha Coleman Adebayo, of the No Fear Coalition, asked the conference’s help in demanding reparations for the destruction of a Black cemetery in Bethesda, Maryland.
A Black man gets a reprieve from execution in the death of a white woman who may have been killed by her cop husband.
The nation’s oldest structural racial entitlement program is one of its most consequential: the Electoral College.
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“Behaving, talking, and sounding too black”—will never be separate from larger issues and questions of language and race.
Many antiracist practices in schools are almost immediately coopted, privatized, and rendered ineffective.
