US Politics

Kweli Nzito
A Tale of Three Apartheids and the Land Conundrums
21 Mar 2018
“White settlers were convinced that the lands they appropriated in the ‘dark continent’ and other lands were theirs by right.”
Jaime A Alves
Marielle Franco’s Assassination: One of Tens of Thousands of Black Murders in Brazil
21 Mar 2018
“Brazil`s terrocratic regime continues producing black dead bodies in astonishing scales without disturbing the normalcy of everyday political life in this country.”
Tatyana Hopkins
Black Panther Party Principles Resurrected in Hurricane-Ravaged Puerto Rico
21 Mar 2018
“The Young Lords saw the Black Panthers trying to get justice for Black people, and they knew they needed to do the same thing.”
Sven Beckert
Today’s Capitalism Was Born in Slavery
21 Mar 2018
“We must develop a new appreciation for the centrality of slavery, in the United States and elsewhere, in the emergence of modern capitalism.”
Ellen Brown
The War on the Post Office
21 Mar 2018
“Postal banking can be profitable through economies of scale and the elimination of profit-taking middlemen, as postal banks globally have demonstrated.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Reporter Eva Bartlett Blasts UN
20 Mar 2018
“The United Nations is deliberately participating in war propaganda” favoring the US-backed “terrorists” in Syria, said Eva Bartlett, an independent Canadian journalist who helped
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Confronting Black-Immigrant Conflicts
20 Mar 2018
“Immigrants have been increasingly criminalized by the state in ways that are very similar to African Americans,” said Dr.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mass Incarceration With No End?
20 Mar 2018
Although US incarceration rates have been going down in recent years, at the current pace it would take 75 years to cut the prison population in half, according to Nazgol Ghandnoosh
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
U.S. Slavery Was Uniquely Capitalist
20 Mar 2018
Even on the left, the capitalist nature of US slavery is not well understood, said historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment
Doug Henwood
Is It Time to Critically Interrogate Nonviolence and Nonviolent Direct Action?
15 Mar 2018
Activism. Democracy. Change through nonviolent direct action.