Black Women Lead Fight Against Police Violence in UK
One reason Black women are in the forefront of British anti-police violence campaigns, is to counter the capitalist smear that Black families are ânot capable of raising children, leading to criminality,â said Adam Elliott-Cooper, an activist and PhD candidate at Kingâs College, in London. Black women fight back by âarticulating their love for family by challenging police violence.â Elliott-Cooper wrote a paper which concluded that every recent campaign to protest the killing of Blacks by British police has been led by a woman.
NYC To Celebrate Release of Last Move 9 Prisoner
âWe want to show our appreciation and love for what this 73 year-old man has gone through,â said Gwen DeBrow, one of the organizers of a reception for Delbert Africa, who was released from prison after 42 years of confinement in the death of a Philadelphia policeman. The event is scheduled for Saturday, March 14, at the Holyrood Episcopal Church in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan. DeBrow, of the Campaign to Bring Mumia Home, described the surviving members of the Move family as âstronger than ever, committed revolutionaries to the liberation of all forms of life.â
Teaching bell hooks
One of the books Boke Saisi most enjoys sharing with her students at the University of California at San Diego, is bell hooksâ âWhere We Stand: Class Matters.â Saisi is a PhD candidate who contributed a column to Black Agenda Reportâs feature, âBooks I Teach.â The chapter âBeing Richâ is especially useful in showing how âracism and racist caste systems are inherent parts of the capitalist system,â said Saisi.
Marxâs âCapitalâ as a Literary Experience
Columbia University PhD candidate in English and Comparative Literature Tiana Reid finds that her students benefit from reading volume one of Karl Marxâs âCapital.â âThere are so many literary wsys to read it, which I donât think blunt the more radical political reading,â said Reid, who conducts research in Black Studies, Marxism and feminism.
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Former and current diplomats from the US, EU and UK met with representatives of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF).
Scientists in Southern African nations revealed the presence of the Omicron Covid-19 variant but the good deed was punished with worldwide travel bans. The World Health Organization m
In this talk prepared for the Albuquerque Anti-War Coalitionâs
This is a brief reflection on water, swamps, bayous, wetlands, and Black life in the United States, and the forms of freedom and racialized unfreedom that these ecologies have facilitated.
We are reprinting Glen Fordâs 2019 article on Venezuela not to demonstrate that he was prescient on the issue of U.S.-Venezuela policies, but because it is still relevant and demonstrates the t
