In the current political climate, Black and progressive activists should focus on locally-based efforts, said author and veteran organizer Kevin Alexander Gray. âWe donât have anybody on the national scene thatâs saying anything coherent,â said Gray, speaking from his hometown of Columbia, South Carolina. âTheyâre saying those sound bites to stay on TV, and smiling and skinninâ and grinninâ,â but âtheyâre disconnected from the struggle, disconnected from their history. People see them as frauds, and thatâs a good thing, as we organize at the local level.â
âThereâs always something new that we couldnât anticipate,â said Minkah Makalani, professor of African and African American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
When North Carolina writer and activist Joshua Briond was introduced to the words, âFrom each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs,â he knew that Be
Can the corporate state hold, âor will it collapse under the weight of mass opposition and mass âdistancingâ from the authority of the state?â asks Duboisian scholar Dr Anthony Monteir
The shrinking of the public health sector is a capitalist crime, abetted by the two corporate parties.
The genie has escaped from the bottle, revealing the deep injustices and cruelties that are embedded in US capitalism and its warped relationship to the peoples it rules, and the world.
