“Three standing ovations given Push’s test run at Sundance convinced some of the business people that although white audiences might decline to support films that show cerebral blacks, The Great Debaters, in which Denzel Washington plays the great black poet Melvin Tolson, or Spike lee’s Miracle at St. Anna, which shows heroic blacks, they would [...]
I think this picture says it all. With all the hoopla going on down in Arizona, I feel that it’s important to expose the primary contradiction; America was founded by illegal aliens! You can’t even play that game with me! I will never in my life refer to the Indigenous people of this continent as [...]
By Sanyika Shakur Traditionally, the consensus, regarding those captured by the state who belong to organized formations within the New Afrikan Independence Movement, has been to accord them either Political Prisoner (PP) or Prisoner of War (POW) status. This general consensus usually flows in accordance with the way in which the situation develops – from [...]
Sectors of the intelligentsia developed an infatuation for Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed and The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal. A controversy about Jared Diamond’s sourcing a New Yorker essay is generating criticism, however. Richard Smith [...]
Supporters of immigration reform in Congress are planning another march in downtown Dallas on May 1, hoping for another sizable turnout like a similar rally four years ago. The April 2006 demonstration protested an immigration bill in the Republican-controlled Congress that would have made illegal immigrants felons. After all reform efforts failed, North Texas Hispanic [...]
By Jayanti Owens Despite the fact that we live in a nation that ideologically embraces egalitarian principles, race and class continue to cause controversies throughout most spheres of American life, particularly in education. We convince ourselves that by implementing bureaucratic systems intended to promote ‘equality,’ such as anti-discrimination laws, we are moving towards a completely [...]
1. “Militarizing Africa” describes how the United States has fomented the devastating war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as taken part in and engineered the Ethiopian invasion of Somalia. With Mfuni Kazadi, Millicent Okumu, Farah Maalim and Halima Abdi Arush. 2. “Economic War” focuses on the World Bank’s and IMF’s decimation [...]
National Public Radio recently ran a story called “New York’s Hipsters Too Cool For The Census.” This story has made the media-rounds with outlet after outlet (yes, even Stephan Colbert [video]) unable to resist grabbing the low-hanging fruit that is hipster-hate by arguing that hipsters in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn are too “cool” and busy Twittering to mail [...]
The lineup for the 2010 Blogging While Brown conference has been announced. Lola Adesioye of The Guardian newspaper is among the speakers. The conference brings together a variety of new media activists offering insights on how the Internet and blogs can impact people of color and issues. In addition, this year’s conference will offer a [...]
M1, a community organizer and member of dead prez, represents revolutionary rap in his latest.
The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement hosts a Unity Brunch on Sunday, April 25, 1-4 p.m. at Community Service Society, 105 E 22nd St, in New York City. The theme is “Celebrating the Life of Safiya Asya Bukhari: Freedom Fighter, International Freedom Fighter Supporter, and author of The War Before.” The panel discussion features Wonda Jones [...]
Lately I’ve had my fair share of run-ins with the hipsters and hippies, as well as the hippie/hipster “culture” at large, and have become increasingly annoyed at their depiction/co-option of my ethnicity as a First Nations person. by Jen Musari, on the Native Appropriations website Kelsey pointed me to this post on Sociological Images last week which [...]
Protests against Arizona’s SB 1070 continue. A case involving college students who used Facebook to hurl racial slurs at a Black student is making headlines. Resist Racism posts the whole exchange between Chelsie Palbicki and Anna Langevin, who refer to the woman as “obamacare” the n-word and other epithets. Peacecomrade posted a 1969 essay by Huey [...]
Recently, Meka of 2DopeBoyz, Oddisee, Dallas Penn, FWMJ, Chris Rabb and Jason Reynolds spoke on a Washington, DC panel hosted by the Future of Music Coalition and Words Beats & Life. They discussed music, politics, the Internet and more. Part One: [vimeo 11111388] Part Two: [vimeo 11113408]
The Taala Hooghan Infoshop & Youth Media Arts Center is very excited to present our 2nd Annual Liberate Earth Day Event for an end to corporate greenwashing & “green” capitalism. An anti-capitalist/anti-colonial event for healthy and sustainable communities! Second Annual LIBERATE EARTH DAY! End Corporate Greenwashing & “Green” Capitalism! Sunday, April 25th 3:00PM – 10:00PM [...]
The story of Diop Olugbala: why he must be set free In 1986 Black Panther Party founder Huey P. Newton said, “You might not have the Black Panther Party, but you have the Uhuru House; you might not have The Black Panther newspaper but you have The Burning Spear. So they really haven’t done anything [...]
Originally distributed at Left Forum 2010, a PDF promoting People Of Color Organize! is posted here. It is formatted “eight up,” meaning it is eight mini-flyers on a page, requiring a few cuts. However, one can cut the sheet down the middle and have four flyers as a strip, too. Download People Of Color Organize! [...]
Dear Gil Scott-Heron, I’ve always defended your track “Whitey on the Moon” to fellow white Americans who dismissed the song as racist. I argued that considering the centuries of enslavement of your African ancestors, and the continued oppression of and racism against Black Americans, it’s not unfair for a Black person to criticize the “white” [...]
The Empire is alive and well, doing its best to try and suffocate the last vestiges of resistance, but hell we know that already. Investigative journalist and award winning documentary filmmaker, John Pilger, takes us into lives of these bold resistors of The Empire in his book Freedom Next Time: Resisting The Empire. Pilger takes [...]
The military agreement between the United States and Colombia has caused outcry in Latin America. Many governments suspect that the US is trying to cement its military hegemony in the region and maintain its ability to intervene in the affairs of Latin American countries. The State Department says that the deal is all about security [...]
Calls to Conscience: Prison Resistance in Palestine, Guantánamo, the U.S. and Iran - http://t.co/lX8QZOfIxQ POC Daily is out! http://t.co/H3ThjHJ8aP ▸ Top stories today via @RedEyesPage @Kurikara_ @iDreamMovies
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