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  • Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow - Industry Baby

    Lil Nas X launched a Bail Fund project with ‘Industry Baby’ but sure, stay mad at him for being naked in a music video

    Originally published: The Root on July 23, 2021 by Tonja Renée Stidhum (more by The Root)  | (Posted Jul 26, 2021)

    In addition to implementing mutual aid to fight mass incarceration, Lil Nas X’s ‘controversial’ visuals are inspiring young queer Black boys to be free.

  • Photo- Museum of the Bible

    ‘Slave Bible’ converted slaves to Christianity by omitting parts that could lead to uprising

    Originally published: The Root on December 11, 2018 by Michael Harriot (more by The Root)  | (Posted Dec 12, 2018)

    A new exhibit at a Washington, D.C., museum featuring an abridged version of the Bible sheds light on how Christian missionaries converted enslaved Africans to Christianity by teaching them the Gospel…except the parts about freedom, equality and resistance.

  • April Pipkins (left) holds a picture of her son Emantic Bradford Jr. Bob Dole (right) salutes the casket of President George H. W. Bush Photo: Jay Reeves/Drew Angerer (AP Images/Getty Images)

    ‘Civility’ is for white people

    Originally published: The Root on December 5, 2018 by Michael Harriot (more by The Root)  | (Posted Dec 07, 2018)

    Even if the truth is unsavory, the dead deserve our condolences and respect. We must be civil. Especially if they are white.

  • At a rally outside the U.S. Courthouse October 29, 1969, Dr. Benjamin Spock, background, listens to Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois Black Panther party. It was part of a protest against the trial of eight persons accused of conspiracy to cause a riot during the Democratic National Convention in 1968. Photo: AP Photo

    Fred Hampton’s death is just one example of the Government’s covert disruption of Black Lives

    Originally published: The Root on December 4, 2018 by Monique Judge (more by The Root)  | (Posted Dec 06, 2018)

    The police lied and said that when they knocked on the door and announced themselves, the Panthers immediately began shooting at them. This was later proven to be a lie.

  • Hurricane Maria survivors receive food and water .

    The crisis in Puerto Rico is a racial issue, here’s why

    Originally published: The Root on October 12, 2017 by Frances Negrón-Muntaner (more by The Root)  | (Posted Oct 17, 2017)

    Last week, CNN’s Jake Tapper interviewed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and asked if he thought President Donald Trump’s punishing response to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico had something to do with “race or ethnicity.” Sanders hesitated a bit but ultimately said, “We have a right to be suspect.”

  • Police in riot gear stand by as protesters demonstrate following a not-guilty verdict in Police Officer Jason Stockley’s trial over shooting death of motorist Anthony Lamar Smith on Sept. 15, 2017, in St. Louis. (Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images)

    FBI launches COINTELPRO 2.0, targeting ‘black identity extremists’

    Originally published: The Root on October 6, 2017 by Anne Branigin (more by The Root)  | (Posted Oct 09, 2017)

    Raise your hand if you identify as a “black identity extremist.” Matter of fact, raise your hand if you’ve ever even heard of the term “black identity extremist.”

Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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