Major League Baseball’s recent moves to recognize the contributions of the Negro league teams they once excluded amount to only “the beginning stages of any kind of restitutive or reparative justice and wouldn’t even come close to restoring” the Black players and teams to their proper place in history, said Josh Myers, professor of Afro American Studies at Howard University. “Baseball was not just a pastime for Black people,” said Myers. “It was on the baseball diamond where community was forged, where people came together” during American apartheid.
The end of the Second Imperialist War (World War II) did not usher in the end of colonialism and oppression for Africans on the continent and in the diaspora. The resistance of Pan-African movements…
A classified diplomatic cable obtained by The Grayzone reveals the role of a veteran CIA officer in violently overthrowing Haiti’s popular President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004.
Frank Chapman calls on Black and Brown communities in Chicago to unite in struggle against the forces that oppress us all.
The U.S. is putting into place the final pieces to spark another proxy war, this time in Taiwan.
A discussion about violence against a Black woman in the Black liberation movement and the political actions planned for this summer's upcoming nominating conventions. First, the story of a professor…
