Protesters demanded that Medgar Evers College cancel Hillary Clintonâs scheduled commencement address at the mostly Black Brooklyn institution, next month. The Clintons are a criminal family, said Dahoud Andre, of Komokoda, the Committee to Mobilize Against Dictatorship in Haiti. If Medgar Evers College honors the former secretary of state, it will be condoning âthe crimes of the Clinton family, and Hillary Clinton, personally, against the people of Haiti and against Black youth, who she called âanimalsâ and âthugsâ who should be âbrought to heel,ââ said Andre.
The antidote to police lawlessness isnât more training, or fancy equipment, but putting the community in charge of the cops.
One approach treats injustice as discreet individual actions, the other recognizes the weight of world history.
The global depression has fossil fuel corporations reeling, but only a peopleâs movement can take away their power to poison the planet.
The Historical Quest for a Black Nation
The contemporary Black struggle should draw on the experience and example of maroons, the escaped slaves that formed communities of freedom beyond the reach of the slave masters, said
