The Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations holds its national conference in Chicago, August 12 and 13, under the theme, “The Ballot and the Bullet: Elections, War and Peace in the Donald Trump Era.” Kamm Howard, of the Black Is Back steering committee, is active in NCOBRA, the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America. “One of the ways we’re pushing reparations is a Black Is Back-led push to have a reparations referendum put on the Chicago ballot in March of 2018,” said Howard.
The cops can’t find white terrorists in plain sight, but they have turned technology to the task of criminalizing Black and Left dissent.
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The author rejects ways of teaching that distort Black young people’s relationships with the natural world.
The author believes we are at a crossroads between fascism and/or extinction, and a path of communal care.
Long before the Civil War, Black abolitionists shared the consensus that violence would be necessary to end slavery.
