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.
If the movement continues to build support, we can win National Improved Medicare for All in the early 2020s.
The reasons for major flows of migration to Europe actually come from within Europe itself.
The city’s Black-led union, with potent support from the city’s Black and brown communities, faced down the new Black mayor.
Black Voters Won’t Save the Democrats
Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner, notes that even trailblazing prison abolition scholar Angela Davis, herself a former political prisoner, underestimated
