Help for homecoming prisoners: Second Chance, Last Chance to Succeed at City...
by Willie Hill This flier is dated Nov. 6, 1968. Programs that accommodate the needs of parolees rarely receive significant recognition for their positive impact on the parolee and society at large....
View ArticleTrayvon Martin and implicit bias
by Eva Paterson As we continue to struggle with the verdict in this murder case – as the only juror of color states that George Zimmerman “got away with murder” and as the nation lurches through yet...
View ArticleJames Baldwin’s visit to Bayview Hunters Point: Racism, censorship and a...
by Alex Cherian Racism In the summer of 1963, the KQED Film Unit invited author James Baldwin to investigate racism in San Francisco. Baldwin agreed to be filmed while he scrutinized the liberal,...
View ArticleNo charges in Ohio police killing of John Crawford as Wal-Mart video...
by Democracy Now! An Ohio grand jury has declined to indict the white police officer who fatally shot John Crawford. A 22-year-old African American, Crawford was killed inside a Wal-Mart store last...
View ArticleFleetwood’s new film, ‘Da Cotton Pickas’
Red carpet film tour screenings Feb. 7, 21, 24 and 27 – all free! by Nat Turner Jr. I’ve been hearing a lot lately about a “Cotton Pickas” documentary due out Black History Month 2015. And I’m finally...
View ArticleThe man beaten and choked at a Donald Trump rally tells his story
by Alice Ollstein When activist Mercutio Southall Jr. was curled up on the ground getting kicked, punched and choked by Donald Trump supporters at a campaign rally in Birmingham, Alabama, he thought:...
View Article‘Nat Turner: Following Faith’ playwright Paula Neiman speaks
by The People’s Minister of Information JR The great Nat Turner is a prophet to some and a hero to most of the Black people I know who are conscious of the African experience in the European and Arab...
View ArticleDr. King: Honor him with a movement, not just monuments
by Dr. Amos C. Brown President Donald Trump opened his mouth again on Thursday and nothing came out but hate, vulgarity, incivility and racist rhetoric. I will not repeat his latest words, but I like...
View ArticleEnd the isolation of Jamil Al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown)
Open Letter to the Bureau of Prisons and State of Georgia by Concerned Academics H. Rap Brown We are academics who have spent our careers researching the history of the civil rights movement, issues of...
View ArticleMass incarceration for profit: The dual impact of the 13th Amendment and the...
African Americans remain the targets of a system of institutional racism and super-exploitation by Abayomi Azikiwe As the United States faces profound challenges in the areas of race relations, class...
View ArticleBlack farmers hail $5 billion in COVID relief to redress generations of racism
Dr. John Boyd’s National Black Farmers Association has been campaigning for decades to end USDA redlining. Here they are in Washington, D.C., on April 28, 2009. – Photo: Alex Brandon, Montgomery...
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