The Republicans in Georgia and elsewhere are engaged in a thinly-disguised attempt to prevent Black people from voting. Although voting is insufficient to solve our problems, we must oppose this racist attack on our civil rights. …
Yet another Black man has been unjustly killed by the cops. …
The struggles against capitalism and racism are linked, and Martin Luther King, Jr. understood this. …
The shooting in Atlanta is part of a long history of anti-Asian racism in the United States. …
It is not surprising that in a racist society, there is a racial disparity in vaccination rates. …
After a year of Trump blaming COVID-19 on China, it is not surprising to see a rise in anti-Asian hate crimes. …
Celebrating the life of Robert Williams, fighter for Black rights. …
No worker of any race or gender should have their livelihood subjected to pleasing the whims of individual clients. This racist legacy should be abolished, and living wages should be guaranteed for all labor. …
David Bell, a Black man, died after being denied medical treatment three times. Is he a victim of racism? …
Black people are disproportionately affected by COVID-19. This is part of a pattern of inequality. …
The pressures of this period are building across the U.S. and around the world. But the capitalist system that is responsible for the crisis remains. This virus has united us in many ways. It has given us a picture of the future capitalism holds out to us. And it isn’t a future that we can accept. …
Martin Luther King Jr., known for his activism against racial segregation, was also a critic of capitalism. …
Healthcare disparities in a racist society continue to harm marginalized groups. …
On December 4, 1969, Fred Hampton was murdered by Chicago police after being surveilled and …
Mexico City, 1968: two black gloved fists are raised in the air during the awards ceremony for the 200-meter sprint at the Olympics, as the U.S. National Anthem. …
The Proud Boys, a violent far-right group, has been celebrating a remark made by Donald Trump at the first presidential debate. …
Two of the three cops involved were not charged at all and one was charged with “wanton endangerment” for firing shots that might have hurt her neighbors, not murder or even manslaughter. …
Since the explosion of outrage following the police murder of George Floyd, millions of Americans …
The National Football League (NFL) season has started again, but this time with a couple of twists. …
Daniel Prude, a Black man visiting relatives in Rochester, New York, died at the hands of Rochester police after being arrested on March 17, 2020 …
2020 has indeed been the worst year. But further events like the ones that define this year will not end with it, unless the root cause – capitalism – is removed. …
Capitalism is a cancer that disproportionately affects Black people. …
The inhumane conditions facing those locked in prisons across the U.S. today are not new …
Following the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, tens of thousands of people took to the streets around the country to protest this latest violence at the hands of the police …
The Milwaukee Bucks shocked the sports world on the afternoon of Wednesday, August 26, after the players decided to boycott Game 5 …
A Tennessee a new law could strip protesters of their right to vote. …
Trump’s former senior advisor Steve Bannon was charged with fraud for pocketing donations to a campaign to help build more wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. …
Even after outrage in the streets, the police cannot control themselves. They shot another unarmed black man. …
The brutal murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis cops turned out to be the last straw for hundreds of thousands of people in the United States. …
For nearly ninety years, Native Americans have protested that a racist slur was the name and mascot of the Washington, D.C. NFL team …
On July 10, Trump’s administration announced that international students had the option of either taking in-person classes or losing their student visa …
Workers at a Whole Foods in MA staged a walkout on July 1 to protest management’s decision to not allow employees to wear Black Lives Matter masks …
people across the country are focusing their anger on tearing down and demanding the removal of monuments and other symbols of the Confederacy …
BAND-AID recently released a new line of skin colored bandages, featuring shades for black and brown skin tones …
Last week, a member of a right-wing armed militia group shot an anti-racist protestor in Albuquerque …
Online townhall: June 20, 2020 …
The question in front of us is whether we look to others for reforms or whether we stay mobilized and look to ourselves? …
Who would have thought in January 2020 that …
In response to massive protests, riots, and ongoing fights against racist police brutality, companies and banks are posting public relations messages …
In a recent press conference, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo revealed the true intention and strategy …
Video of online townhall from June 6, 2020 …
Ever since racist Minneapolis cops murdered George Floyd, protests have erupted in thousands of cities …
In another racist outrage, Trump dared to schedule his first campaign rally of the season for June 19 in Tulsa, Oklahoma …
It never ends. Despite the ongoing nationwide and even global protests in the wake of the racist police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, a white Atlanta cop shot a Black man, Rayshard Brooks, 27 years old, in the back …
Some demonstrators have raised the slogan “Defund the police!” …
This was different. Something changed. People were engaged. …
All the pent up anger, all the weeks of being stuck at home, all the worry about getting sick, all the economic hardship, all the anxiety about the future, combined with the history of systemic racism dating back to slavery led to a response that exploded into the streets. …
In Vallejo, CA on June 2, police executed a 22-year old man in cold blood. …
White-supremacist organizations and individuals have taken to Twitter to promote their violent agenda …
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