The nationās best known political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal, marked the 45th anniversary of the MOVE organization with recollections of when MOVE members were undergound in Rochester, New York. There, they ālived a life of peace that was unthinkable in Philadelphia,ā because āthey lived out of the eye of a merciless media,ā he said. āAbsent the āzone of negativity by the media, people met MOVE as people, and loved them.ā In contrast, police and media hostility to MOVE in the City of Brotherly Love led to life sentences for nine MOVE members in 1978, and the bombing of the MOVE residence in 1985, killing eleven members, including five children.
A poem from the late Amiri Baraka questions the myths of U.S. exceptionalism that engulfed the nation after 9/11 attacks, contextualizing them with a history of the Westās centuries-longā¦
A UN "peacekeeping" mission continues operations in Somalia.
This weekās featured author is Psyche A. Williams-Forson. Williams-Forson is Professor and Chair of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her book is Eating While Black: Foodā¦
The recent Supreme Court decision which banned the use of race as a criterion for college admissions is indeed racist. The decision also obscures the need for Black unity and for a new Blackā¦
