"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.
Now as in the past, much of the talk about American “freedom” is really about white people’s presumed right to dominate everyone else.
The racist roots of healthcare in this country run as deep as the slavery underpinnings of policing.
Census data show 19 percent of Black households did not have enough food to eat in the past week, compared to 7 percent of white households.
Dozens of New Jersey officers who have been criminally charged with official misconduct avoided the jail time called for under the law.
Trump’s election, Russiagate and the smear campaign against Julian Assange have deluded and disoriented many “left” organizations.
