Hill’s bold statement to the UN is part of the internationalist Black radical tradition, exemplified by Paul Robeson, the Black Panther Party, and today’s Black Lives Matter movement.
Subjects Archives: Race
Fred Hampton’s death is just one example of the Government’s covert disruption of Black Lives
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.
Left behind
The historically low black unemployment rate is one of Donald Trump’s favorite applause lines. Even Reuters [ht: ja] declares that Trump is right.
Zionism: cycles of trauma and aggression in the service of settler colonialism
The origins of Zionism are profoundly misunderstood by many. This is not coincidental and can be seen largely as the result of propaganda, which opportunistically and erroneously asserts that Zionism is the natural expression of Judaism.
What white supremacists know
The violent theft of land and capital is at the core of the U.S. experiment: the U.S. military got its start in the wars against Native Americans.
Radical black feminism and the simultaneity of oppression
As the word intersectionality falls from the lips of Hillary Clinton and increasingly is normalized and sanitized, we should be clear about its radical moorings.
When media say ‘working class,’ they don’t necessarily mean workers—but they do mean White
Since the 2016 elections, corporate media narratives about U.S. politics have fixated on the “white working class” as a pivotal demographic, presented as a hardscrabble assortment of disaffected outsiders.
Toward Racial Justice and a Third Reconstruction
This piece provides an overview of the bitterly polarized and consequential political moment in which the United States, along with many other countries, is embroiled in. It also suggests a strategic approach for U.S. progressives and the left to maximize our contribution to defeating the Trump and the far right, and advancing toward racial and […]
“Hell No!’—Stokely Carmichael twenty years on
Within a timeframe of hardly four years, Stokely Carmichael’s organizational efforts evolved from the mobilization of black voters in Alabama and Mississippi to building a large movement resisting the military draft at the height of the Vietnam war, culminating in the SNCC’s “Hell No! We Won’t Go!” campaign.
History made as minorities elected to Congress
An election of “firsts:” Women, LGBTQ, Muslims, African-Americans and Native Americans score seats in the House and Senate.
![Header photo: School children reciting the Pledge of Allegiance shortly before the military round-up of Japanese Americans on the West Coast, April 20, 1942. Original caption: “San Francisco, California. Many children of Japanese ancestry attended Raphael Weill public School, Geary and Buchanan Streets, prior to evacuation. This scene shows first- graders during flag pledge ceremony. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration. Provision will be effected for the continuance of education.” Photo by Dorothea Lange, courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.]](https://mronline.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/School-children-reciting-the-Pledge-of-Allegiance-shortly-before-the-military-round-up-of-Japanese-Americans-on-the-West-Coast-April-20-1942.-200x200.jpg "This isn’t the first time white supremacists have tried to cancel birthright citizenship")
This isn’t the first time white supremacists have tried to cancel birthright citizenship
Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship is yet another attempt to make the U.S. a “White Man’s Country, and threatens all people of color.
The great un-blackening: the corporate project to erase black people from politics
Corporate rule imposes a duopoly system in which one party is overtly white supremacist and the other party refuses to tackle racial oppression–but both pursue austerity and war.
The color of economic anxiety
Is the collapse of Democratic fortunes due to economic anxiety? Of course. Just ask black Milwaukeeans.
Black Lives Matter activists hail ‘historic’ verdict as killer of Laquan McDonald convicted of murder
“In Chicago instead of funding healthcare, the things we need, we have been divested from. And that’s part of a neoliberal project that’s been hegemonic since the 1970s… capitalism sets the conditions for everything that’s happened.”
“Yo Soy” (I Am): an act of visual rebellion by Victor Garcia
Garcia’s series highlights the imposition of racism as an insidious paradigm, defining who is, and what makes, an “American.”
