"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.
This week we discuss the rising popularity of socialism in the US, Bernie Sanders’ energy policy, and the electoral obstacles to electing a new Congress.
Race-based medicine in the US has solidified health inequality and is bound up with indebtedness.
Colonial relations of power and ways of classifying human persons that were essential to political colonialism have persisted.
Papua and West Papua are subjected to violence and habitual repression from the Indonesian central authorities.
We figured out pretty fast that hashtags don’t move white supremacists, and petitions don’t change policy for Black lives.
