In
the coming months we will have to change out and upgrade our old
recording equipment, provide additional help to our friends at CBC
Monitor, produce the pilot of what we hope will be a weekly
black-oriented audio and video news program, and pay some modest
travel expenses. We intend to be here for a while, and to expand our efforts into broadcasting, via internet and over the old-fashioned cable and radio waves, and participate in some good old-fashioned face-to-face non-internet organizing. The need for independent, nonpartisan adversarial journalism isn't going away, and neither will we. Please help us stay out here.
The official response to Katrina was a catastrophic failure of the state. The real story of survival was written by a coalition of the discarded—ex-offenders and Black churches—who built their own…
The U.S. is a purveyor of global violence, as illustrated by the intensifying militarism in the Caribbean and targeting of Venezuela. The struggle to establish a Zone of Peace directly challenges…
Mayor Bowser going along to get along with Donald Trump is unsurprising to anyone who has followed her political career. She is the Black misleader par excellence.
“To understand the history of the Americas we must pay tribute to…Haiti.”
Senator Ted Cruz has written an open letter urging Trump to recognize Somaliland, causing jubilation among Somaliland secessionists.
