Billions of people around the world, without exaggeration, remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. They remember him for his academic excellence at Morehouse College where he earned his baccalaureate degree; at Crozer Theological Seminary where he earned his bachelors of divinity; and at Boston University where he earned his doctorate. He was a minister of the gospel and an activist. […]
The outgoing Trump administration is determined to create maximum problems for its successor. On Monday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a number of policy directives designed to leave a violent extreme-right stamp on U.S. foreign policy for years. One of the most mendacious and hypocritical policies concerns socialist Cuba. It returns Cuba to the U.S. list of State Sponsors […]
By Ian Goodrum I don’t need to tell you what happened at the U.S. Capitol last week. Videos and pictures do a good enough job of that. We all saw the angry crowds massing in support of lame-duck President Donald Trump in Washington. We saw them break into the halls of Congress to overturn the certification of last November’s election, […]
On Wednesday, January 6, 2021, during the congressional certification hearing for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, a violent fascist coup attempt was made in the streets of D.C. and on Capitol Hill in an effort to reverse the defeat of Donald Trump. The coup attempt appears to have been coordinated throughout the country. Fascist Trump supporters from the likes […]
All eyes are on the city of Columbus, Ohio, after the December murders of two unarmed, law-abiding Black men by area police in less than three weeks. These two incidents are merely the tip of the iceberg. The systematic violence against people of color in this city has a long history. According to Mapping Police Violence, in relation to police killing […]
If you watch the video of the murder of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, its reality could not be more clear. The state of Ohio is an open-carry state. Tamir Rice openly carried what turned out to be a toy gun, and the police officers who were called to the scene drove aggressively over a playground, jumped out the car door, and […]
Yesterday’s storming of the U.S. Capitol was nothing less than a white supremacist insurrection. Organized by Trump himself along with Giuliani, Bannon, and their big-business backers its goal was to disrupt Congress’s certification of the Electoral College vote and overturn the November election. It was a criminal act of sedition and should be treated as such. A full investigation must […]
Wow! The people’s electoral uprising that defeated Donald Trump in November achieved another huge victory in yesterday’s runoff election in Georgia. In fact, led by the massive turnout of the African American people, it surpassed the November vote in both momentum and in raw numbers. It’s historic, a turning point, a sign of progress. It’s all these things, but more […]
Editor’s note: With movie theaters closed down for most of the year, streaming became more popular than ever. The following 10 shows and films are linked to reviews. Lovecraft Country (HBO): A horror-drama TV series about a young African American who travels across the segregated U.S. in search of his father. This show “refashions and redefines ’50s America . . . […]
Editor’s note: We present 10 excellent books for your consideration, in no particular order. Happy reading! 1. Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations, by Vijay Prashad In Washington Bullets, Vijay Prashad writes about the history of CIA- and IMF-backed coups from the onset of the Cold War to the present in Guatemala, Venezuela, Congo, Indonesia, Brazil, and elsewhere. […]