In the current political climate, Black and progressive activists should focus on locally-based efforts, said author and veteran organizer Kevin Alexander Gray. “We don’t have anybody on the national scene that’s saying anything coherent,” said Gray, speaking from his hometown of Columbia, South Carolina. “They’re saying those sound bites to stay on TV, and smiling and skinnin’ and grinnin’,” but “they’re disconnected from the struggle, disconnected from their history. People see them as frauds, and that’s a good thing, as we organize at the local level.”
Black health is directly connected to the displacement and dispossession of our ancestors and the conditions of our neighborhoods.
Through photography, the author asks questions about the meaning and nature of liberation.
In some jurisdiction police dogs only bite Black people, but only a few that are mauled by dogs get justice.
Muntaqim is one of the longest-held political prisoners in the world. “Both his age and serious medical conditions made him vulnerable to the coronavirus.”
The defendant was caged behind thick glass, and had to crawl on his knees to a slit in the glass to make contact with his lawyers.
