Jordan Neely was a Black man who died after being held in a chokehold by Daniel Penny, a white vigilante, on the New York City subway in 2023. Penny was acquitted by a jury, but the Peoples Senate, which is the next phase of the Spirit of Mandela Coalition, is hosting a community forum at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn on Saturday, February 1st. This is the first in a series of workshops organized by the Medgar Evers College Coalition. We are joined by Tag, who is on the coordinating committee of Spirit of Mandela.
This week’s featured scholar is Moya Bailey. Bailey is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. Her article is “The Ethics of Pace.”
Leftists, especially the Black left, do not share common cause with everyone who wants to end U.S involvement in Ukraine. The politics of some who call themselves anti-war cannot be ignored.…
Whether Super Bowl quarterbacks, or presidents, or police chiefs, unquestioned admiration of the "first Black" should come to an end.
Policing is inextricably linked to racism and to capitalism.
The history of European colonialism and the endless U.S. desire for a military presence strengthen a Somalia secessionist movement and warfare that most people in that country do not…
