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 theoretical and yet also vernacular approach to “the rules” as they are made and unmade.
Slam and spoken word poetry created their own spaces and voices, and may one day provide a blueprint for making new worlds.
The people of Haiti demand to know who stole the oil money that was gifted to them in solidarity by the people of Venezuela.
The rich white West seeks to drown one of the most vibrant democracies in world under a tsunami of falsehoods and libel.
The fight against HIV in Black America requires a comprehensive assault on institutional health disparities.
