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.
U.S. police agencies, including the FBI, are incapable of mounting an effective offensive against their soul mates in the armed white right.
Joe Biden was made to answer for many of his political crimes.
Americans have an openly racist president, racist foreign policy, racist law enforcement and racist corporate media.
U.S. imperialism views the One Belt One Road as an existential threat to the domination and monopoly of the dollar.
I just walked in the building, and I’m pissed—shaking with anger—why am I the usual, permanent suspect, Scrutinized, looked up and down, looked at
