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Remembering Malcolm X as he was: a revolutionary
Historians have misrepresented the last stage of Malcolm X's life. His political views were changing, but not "softening."
Feb 15, 2016
The Life and Legacy of Harry Haywood
There is an old saying that "history is written by the
victors." While subject to some caveat, in the history of Black Americans it
has held very t...
Jan 13, 2016
Small business not the heart of US economy
The U.S. economy in fact is totally dominated by monopoly corporations.
Dec 29, 2015
Justice isn’t blind
Now more than ever it should be clear the police in America are an instrument of “order,” not justice in any sense.
Dec 02, 2015
Michael Eric Dyson: Worse for Black people than the Moynihan Report?
Dyson creates a dichotomy between people who believe that “Black Lives Matter” and those focused on “public policy.”
Nov 13, 2015
Campuses rise against racism
Unsurprisingly, in a time of roiling racial controversy, the culture of America’s college campuses have entered the cross hairs of those seeking to ...
Aug 14, 2015
One year since Michael Brown’s death: movement grows, confronts challenges
Any real movement for Black Liberation should be in the business of defining its own reality and goals and presenting them to the masses of people; le...
Jul 10, 2015
Report outlines criminalization of girls
n a new bombshell of a report, “The Sexual Abuse to Prison Pipeline: The Girls’ Story,” it was revealed that in many states nearly 80 percent of...
Jul 07, 2015
The demagogue cometh: The Donald Trump campaign
Donald Trump, loud-mouth-in-chief, has recently been in the news for some of his earliest comments as a Presidential candidate.
Jul 01, 2015
The U.S. state: built on slavery and genocide
Is the system broken, or is it working exactly as it was intended?
Revisiting the theories of the state first developed by Marx, Engels and especially Lenin in his work "The State and Revolution."