If you managed to attend the annual DC gathering of the Congressional Black Caucus last week you know it was more the "Corporate Black Caucus" that was on display. Goodie bags from Coca-cola, a health care summit sponsored by Pfizer, and the logos from Wal-Mart, Lockheed and Boeing were everywhere to tell you who paid the bills and called the shots at this annual celebration of supposed black political empowerment. In the midst of this den of corporate iniquity, Russell Moniker from Single Payer Action cornered Rep. Conyers to inquire on the status of single payer.
This is a story about the ways in which the Maroons positioned themselves within a powerful and expanding empire.
The members of the Art Ensemble represented “five different articulations of Africanity.”
Zimbabwe’s new “open for business” posture apparently means, “Come and take all of our resources.”
Located 40 miles south of Atlanta, LaGrange uses local utilities as a form of social control.
US-backed jihadists have been getting away with pinning their attacks on the Syrian government since 2013.
