Subjects Archives: Media

CounterSpin interview with Tanya Clay House on erasing history.

The pro-Palestine movement has never been more prominent in the West, but Western governments and corporations are still committed to the success of the Zionist project.

Interview with Activist M. on the growing military influences on civil life threatening Indonesia’s dearly earned peace.

Hammer & Hope asked Black organizers, academics, and writers to consider the state of Black politics five years after the 2020 uprisings and with the re-election of Donald Trump. Their responses, some written before Trump’s inauguration, offer ideas for where we go from here.

Columbia University has suspended 65 students for joining a pro-Palestine and anti-genocide protest inside the university’s main library on Wednesday, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Boots Riley, Kneecap, Residente and dozens of other artists have signed an open letter protesting the censorship of Kehlani after the NYC mayor’s office pushed for the cancellation of her pride concert.

“Know this: throughout it all. I have never felt alone. To the eye, I was alone in solitary confinement, on death row, but the eye cannot really see all that is, for behind brick and steel, I felt our love, sometimes like a wave, sometimes like a whisper, but always there, ever present.” – Mumia Abu-Jamal, Prison Radio.

The National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX) launched the 18th edition of the Cuban Days Against Homophobia and Transphobia on Monday.

The new, bold and vibrant leader of Burkina Faso, has left his continental colleagues in the dust, when representing Pan-African leadership…

In a March 31st article published by the North Carolina Black Alliance, the Smithsonian leader revisits history during an HBCU stop at Shaw University; Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch said, “I will probably get fired at some point,” Bunch said. “But I think the goal would be to, sort of, fight the fight as long as you can.”

Understanding media coverage of healthcare price battles.

Billionaire heiress Shari Redstone has regularly tried to interfere with news coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza on one of America’s leading TV networks.

The voice of millions of union members was shamefully missing this election.

Part 1. On the Courage to Remember The first demonstration I ever went on was at the age of twelve, against the Vietnam War. The first formal history lesson I received came a few months later, when I commenced high school. That day the old history master, Mr. Griffiths, chalked what I later learned was […]

The Trump administration is very upset with Wikipedia, the collaboratively edited online encyclopedia.

Challenges to Zionism in the late 1960s and 1970s sparked an effort to redefine antisemitism focused on defending Israel while attacking the political Left. This resulted in the IHRA definition and the assault on Palestine activism we see today.

The relevance of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most famous work today on its centennial.

Francis’ Cuban saga began in March 2014, when he wrote personal letters to Barack Obama and Raúl Castro. He offered the Vatican as neutral ground for discreet dialogue, which took place sometimes in public and sometimes in absolute confidentiality. He did so without fanfare or press releases, as is usually the case with efforts that pursue truly momentous goals.

Trumpism thrives on the arms race for our eyes and ears. Chris Hayes knows how to get out of it.

Since its initial organizational expression in 1900, the phrase Pan-Africanism has been expressed in many different forms.