"I’m describing crimes against humanity,” said Dr Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, a leader of the fight to save Moses Macedonia African Cemetery from further destruction by developers. The older section of the cemetery was “looted” of artifacts, while the post-Emancipation section has been paved over for a parking lot. Bethesda, a suburb of Washington, DC, and one of the richest localities in the nation, wants to obliterate evidence of its past as a “slave breeding” state where young Black girls were subjected to “sexual torture,” said Dr. Coleman-Adebayo, a founder of the No Fear Coalition.
Instead of succumbing to xenophobia and nativism, as with anti-Somali sentiment in Kenya or ADOS in the US, we need to pursue freedom in ways that speak to our differences.
Millions of Venezuelans are building socialism from below, and most of them are Black, brown and female.
The atrocities committed by white male shooters are part and parcel of US behavior both domestically and around the world.
Sting operations and the use of informants and agents provocateurs have become a staple of FBI operations.
If the movement continues to build support, we can win National Improved Medicare for All in the early 2020s.
