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
Anti-imperialist unity has long been sought by African people but has been thwarted by outside forces. The people still struggle to reach this goal, and the West African Peoples Organization is theâŚ
The first in a three-part series analyzing African politics in 2022.
The trans-Atlantice slave trade did not end with the 1808 ban. The Clotilda arrived in 1860 and the descendants of those enslaved people are impacted by that history, as are all African people in theâŚ
The U.S. imposes unilateral coercive measures, sanctions, against millions of people around the world. Sanctions are war by other means, creating as much damage as bombs and bullets do.
Black people are disproportionately convicted of felonies across New York State. In Manhattan, a Black person is 21 times more likely to be convicted of a crime than a white person.
