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.
In Washington’s eyes, the point of funding Black, indigenous, LGBT or other minority groups in enemy countries is not simply to promote tensions there; it is also to create a narrative that wil
Over July and August Rwandan soldiers were deployed in Mozambique, purportedly to fight ISIS terrorists.
The mantra of "lived experience" can be a dangerous cover for reactionary politics.
Democratic party leadership are as uninterested in fighting for abortion rights as they are in addressing anything else their members need and want.
Joe Biden is committed to the imperatives of the bipartisan war party.
