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Turning the fight to save the environment into a fight for racial justice
By Teju Adisa-Farrar Growing up in West Oakland, having asthma did not seem abnormal to me. My brother often had asthma attacks and my parents would have to rush him to the emergency room. I was taken to the hospital several times to do breathing treatments using a nebulizer. When playing sports at Lowell Park […]
What do we do with abusers like R. Kelly if we abolish prisons?
Editor’s Note: This essay contains discussions of childhood sexual violence I didn’t order that extra whiskey ginger last week. I went home when my body told me to, even though it was still early and my friends were still partying. I rested when I got sick, or as much as I possibly could without missing […]
Dollar stores replace grocery stores in low-income Black communities at alarming rates, one town is fighting the surge
According to the Institue for Self-Reliance, a community located on the north side of Tulsa, Oklahoma is looking to push dollar stores (Dollar General, Dollar Tree and Family Dollar) out of their community. At present, the stores have over 50 locations in North Tulsa alone, and while this predominantly Black portion of Tulsa goes on […]
Liberals use “unity” to systematically silence women of color. It’s time to be divisive
By Clelia Rodriguez The persecution and hunt of non-white bodies is old news. Social media maps it up instantly with white liberals’ “I’m glad that’s not me or my family going through that,” or their almost gratifying pity. Each second, each moment, each hour, each day, each night, each week, each month, each year, each […]
Founder of notorious private military company Blackwater looking to extract minerals from war-torn Afghanistan
According to journalist Antony Loewenstein from TRTWorld, a Turkish international news channel, the founder of notorious private military company Blackwater is looking to monetize a war-torn Afghanistan by extracting and mining the country’s minerals.
Brazil’s far-right President wants to mine the Amazon, but one Indigenous tribe is fighting him
The Munduruku tribe stood against bulldozers, high-pressure hoses and dredges as the Brazillian government tried to poison the fish and pollute the water in a campaign to open up the Amazon to mining for alleged minerals alleged to lie beneath it. According to the New York Times, the tribe’s stand in March, which saw them […]
My ancestors didn’t die for the right to vote, and we are allowed to question them anyway
“Internalized anti-Blackness has us quick to condemn, erase, and humiliate ourselves and our ancestors more than we do the people who did the actual enslaving” — Chelsea Neason My grandmother lived a long life, but I can only imagine how much longer it would have been without the struggles she fought through. She used to […]
Left-leaning Democrats look to Medicare for All platform to energize elections campaigns
The Democratic party is moving closer to embracing a radical policy change to the existing medical system in America, moving closer to a model already in practice in much of the developed world. As the mid-term elections creep ever closer, the Democrats, led by Bernie Sanders, are increasingly calling for “Medicare for All” as a […]
Marches in NY, D.C. call for emphasis on the rights of Black women to overturn status quo
Black women organizers in Washington D.C. and New York City marched, protested and called upon the nation this weekend to call for a “new social contract” with an emphasis on issues facing Black women. As Black Women’s Blueprint, the group organizing the lead march in Washington D.C., stated in a press release: “Black women, cis, […]
Jemele Hill’s $6 million buyout part of ESPN’s efforts to avoid race and gender in sports
ESPN’s new boss Jimmy Pitaro told Business Insider back in May that “We (ESPN) are not a political organization, we are a sports-media company.” this position seems to have taken its toll on a few employees, chiefly Jemele Hill. Hill’s relationship with the company seemed to be souring following tweets arguing that the best way […]
Homelessness among formerly incarcerated people is at a crisis point, according to the Prison Policy Initiative
According to a new report from the Prison Policy Initiative, homelessness among the 5 million formerly incarcerated people in America is ten times higher than it is for the rest of the country. Included in the report are statistics broken down by race and gender, and the report also notes those who are living in […]
Elbert Howard, one of the Black Panther Party founders, dies at 80
Elbert Howard, one of the original six members of the Black Panther Party, formally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, has died at the age of 80 years old. Howard had been sick for a number of years, according to his wife Carol Hyams who confirmed his death to the Associated Press. Howard had been […]