Riot police brutally attacked protesters in the mostly Black city of Buenaventura, the South American nationâs largest port. Charo Mina-Rojas, of Black Community Process, part of a broad spectrum of organizations behind a general strike in the city of half a million people, said water is unavailable 150 days of the year, the people âdonât have access to health care, teachers have not been paid in months,â and violence is rampant in poor neighborhoods controlled by paramilitary gunmen. âWe donât see opportunities for real peace in Colombia if Black people continue under these racist attacks by the national government,â said Mina-Rojas.
This weekâs featured author is Tanya KaterĂ HernĂĄndez. HernĂĄndez is the Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law. Her book is Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-âŚ
The traumatizing clearing of the University City Townhome encampment in West Philadelphia symbolizes the ongoing racial injustice of gentrification. One solution: The city should buy theâŚ
The U.S. and its European allies often determine who will govern African nations. Attendees at a recent conference discussed how to end this dynamic and create true sovereignty on the AfricanâŚ
The CIA's Operation Paperclip brought Nazi scientists to the U.S. and MKULTRA mind control experimentation was one of its projects. Black prison inmates were targeted for these unethical procedures.
The CIA has played a role in controlling South African media from the days of apartheid to the present.
