Riot police brutally attacked protesters in the mostly Black city of Buenaventura, the South American nationâs largest port. Charo Mina-Rojas, of Black Community Process, part of a broad spectrum of organizations behind a general strike in the city of half a million people, said water is unavailable 150 days of the year, the people âdonât have access to health care, teachers have not been paid in months,â and violence is rampant in poor neighborhoods controlled by paramilitary gunmen. âWe donât see opportunities for real peace in Colombia if Black people continue under these racist attacks by the national government,â said Mina-Rojas.
Shirley Graham Du Bois on the liberation of Palestine.
A recurring social media trope casts Rwandan President Paul Kagame as a defiant African hero, like Burkina Fasoâs Ibrahim TraorĂŠ, resisting the Westâs dictates, but nothing could be further from theâŚ
Muriel Bowser is proving that Black faces in high places donât break systems, they grease them. While slashing wages for tipped workers and handing billionaires stadium deals, D.C.âs mayor is theâŚ
The Democratic Party would rather silence critics like Hogg than fix its own rot. Their reliance on Black Misleaders to do the dirty work exposes once again that the Democrats care more about powerâŚ
Malcolm X didnât just fight for Black liberationâhe waged war on empire itself. As U.S. militarism tightens its grip on Africa and beyond, his revolutionary internationalism burns brighter than everâŚ
