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.
People’s lawyers found the cracks and searched out open spaces in the law.
The centrality of slavery to capitalism is not new, as any serious student of WEB Dubois is aware. “Negro slavery seemed the very basis of American capitalism.”
Even the loss of the equivalent of a full year’s economic production due to US aggression has not broken the people’s will.
Professor Gerald Horne shows that the Dark Continent was Europe, not Africa.
Coleen Rowley: RussiaGate was a public lynching with no evidence; Mumia: our forces are building, marching again; Glen Ford: RussiaGate isn’t over.
