Historian, author and activist Paul Street has high praise for James Forman Jr.ās new book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. Forman is a professor at Yale Law School and a former public defender in Washington, DC. His book āfills a giant hole in the literature,ā illuminating the role played by āBlack elites in the rise of the mass incarceration system,ā said Street, himself an expert on race and the U.S. penal system. āMany ordinary, working class Black voters in the 70s and 80s have actively supported the racially disparate war on crime and drugs that ended up producing racist mass incarceration,ā said Street, whose latest book is titled They Rule: The 1% v. Democracy.
Western cameras frame this as Israel vs. Iranābut African analysts see through the script: another case of ārules for thee, not for meā in a system built to punish the Global South.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution never stopped printing racist liesāit just upgraded its fonts.
Francesca Albaneseās new UN report doesnāt just document genocide, it indicts the corporate machine profiting from Palestinian blood.
In this weekās segment, we discuss how the UK government protects Israel through terrorism statute lawfare, and media manipulation. But first, Donald Trump announced an early end to Temporaryā¦
The Trump administration recently announced the end of Temporary Protective Status (TPS) for 500,000 Haitians currently living in the United States. The end of TPS would end their ability toā¦
