Black Is Back Coalition Holds National Conference in St. Louis
Che Guevaraās call for āone, two, many Vietnamsā to resist US imperialism has been answered in the 21stcentury by the rise of China and a multi-polar world, said BAR executive editor Glen Ford, speaking at a national conference of the Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations. Omali Yeshitela, leader of the African Peopleās Socialist Party and chairman of the Black Is Back Coalition, told the conference, āWe have to build a steel cadre that is willing to make revolution our profession.ā
Trump Isnāt Special: All US Presidents Support White Supremacy
William C Anderson, author of a recent article titled, āUsing Patriotism to Deflect Racism is a Deadly Mistake,ā said āthe Oval Office is quite familiarā with white supremacists like Donald Trump. āIt misses the point to say things like, āTrump is disrespecting the office or lowering the standard of the presidency,āā said Anderson, āwhen this has always been a white supremacist position.ā
Jim Crow Still Lives in Hollywood
The US film industry is more open to Black themes and participation than in the past, but still has not answered the question of what kind of society it will project, said Maryann Erigha, a professor of sociology and African American Studies at the University of Georgia, and author of the new book, āThe Hollywood Jim Crow: Racial Politics of the Movie Industry.ā āIs it a sanitized whiteness, is it a whitewashed vision, or can we have this unapologetic Blackness, and that just be part of the American cultural canon?ā
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