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.
White supremacy in Hollywood operates on the premise that Black movies, directors, and stars are “unbankable”—or not profitable.
As global capitalism slowly withers, a non-exploitative health care system has entered the realm of the possible.
Blacks and Palestinians struggle against the same global matrix of interlocking oppressions.
Avoid anything that could be construed as progressive or risk never working in television again.
The Trump-era brought in a new McCarthyism to which the Guild, shockingly, has fallen prey.
