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.
A new book highlights what contemporary prohibitions on Black life look like in various geographical and socio-political spaces.
In the Age of Trump, it could be said that all interpreters of Jefferson and US History have their own “alternative facts.”
White supremacist killers in the U.S. are simply implementing on a local level what their government does across the globe.
Ancient Egyptians were not Asians, nor aliens. “Genocide might indeed be a worse demon of our nature.”
The US government gave hundreds of millions of acres of land to whites, but failed to give freed slaves 40 acres and a mule or protect Black farmers from massive theft.
