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.
Despite a corporate media blackout on conditions behind prison walls, inmates find ways to protest the year-long lockdown that was punctuated, in April, by a rebellion that left seven dead, said
Donald Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Putin in defiance of “the military-industrial complex,” the “deep state” and the corporate media, is more evidence that his is the most “pro-peace presidency” s
Massive riots against huge hikes in fuel prices brought down the government of Prime Minister Guy Lafontant.
"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
“There can be no reversal of the corporate “race to the bottom” unless the Lords of Capital are dethroned.”
