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.
Impeachment helps the Democratic Party catch a breath of temporary relief from subjects such as Medicare for All or climate catastrophe.
6p to 9p on Saturday, October 26 at the People’s Forum, 320 West 37th Street, New York City.
Five years since its inception, a look at what the Black Lives Matter movement accomplished and the important work it left unfinished.
In their crusade to get Trump and distract from their own corruption, the Democrats have moved on from Russiagate to an impeachment inquiry over “Ukrainegate.”
in the swamp, downstream not far from the White Supreme Court and Capitalist Hill, Boss Tweet sings in the War House’s Offal Office
