Kyle Mays, who teaches at the African American Studies Department and the Native American Center at UCLA, says Hip Hop “builds solidarity between the two communities,” which share a complex history of slavery, displacement and state violence. Mays is author of the book, Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in North America.Water rights and climate change are connected with larger political empowerment issues. “We need to somehow deal with the issue of returning land to native peoples,” said Mays, who is of Black and Native American ancestry.
Many of the tools and tactics adopted by American police over the past half century were originally deployed to fight communism abroad.
Through writing, many Black queer people are creating the world we all deserve to live in.
The anarchist author maintains that the only thing the state “is superior at is conquest.”
Democratic leadership is pro-democracy in the US and opposed to it every place else in the world.
William Monroe Trotter insisted that protest and civil disobedience were the only effective remedies for racial discrimination.
