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.
For Black August, read William L. Patterson on racial genocide, the law, and the Martinsville Seven.
One year ago the U.S. was ousted from Afghanistan after making war on that country for 20 years. But the U.S. killed civilians as it left and stole Afghanistan's assets. It seems there is no end toâŚ
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This weekâs featured author is Boukary Sawadogo. Sawadogo is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies and Black Studies at City CollegeâCity University of New York. His book is Africans in Harlem: AnâŚ
Ahjamu Umi and Roberto Sirvent discuss revolutionary organizing.
