The Buffalo, N.Y., National Hoodie Day march, led by African-American youth, proceeded down a major street in a predominantly African-American community on June 10. As lines of cars crawled by and came to a stop many times, drivers in rush-hour traffic signaled support with horns, raised fists and shouts, and took pictures from car windows. [...]
George Zimmerman, the racist vigilante killer of Trayvon Martin, has launched a campaign through his lawyers to smear his victim. He wants to portray Martin, and indeed every Black youth, as a criminal gangster deserving of the death sentence that he, in fact, meted out to the unarmed 17-year-old on Feb. 26, 2012, in the [...]
After three years, the white Detroit police officer who shot a 7-year-old African-American girl is finally standing trial in Wayne County Circuit Court. Joseph Weekley was part of a Special Response Team that entered the downstairs flat where Aiyana Stanley Jones and her grandmother were sleeping in the front room. Police were looking for an [...]
Buffalo, N.Y. — Youth with the International Action Center carried banners and signs in the Buffalo Pride Parade on June 2. The organization raised a variety of issues facing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people. Included was support for Pvt. B. Manning. One contingent member had protested the day before, demanding freedom for Manning at [...]
Thousands of people marched through New York’s Greenwich Village the evening of May 20 to protest the murder of Mark Carson. Shortly after midnight May 18, Carson was shot to death by a man yelling anti-gay slurs. Carson, a 32-year-old African American described by family and friends as “a proud gay man,” had been strolling [...]
The corporate-owned media reviews of the movie “The Central Park Five,” just released on DVD, focus mainly on the pathos and injustice of wrongful incarceration. They’re downplaying the more political message of the film, which exposes the oppressive and racist nature of the state — and the media — under capitalism in the United States. [...]
Leading community organizers in the Detroit area addressed a standing- room-only audience at Central United Methodist Church on May 4 when the Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions and Utility Shut-offs presented a representative sample of documents related to the bond issues and loans that are at the root of the financial crisis in [...]
When the great African-American baseball player, Jackie Robinson, broke the color barrier of the then all-white, segregated Major Baseball League on April 15, 1947, as a Brooklyn Dodger, it was a historic first. It was even more remarkable because there wasn’t a modern-day Civil Rights Movement at that time to support his efforts. In fact, [...]
In December 1981, award-winning journalist and political activist Mumia Abu-Jamal was accused of killing a Philadelphia police officer. While professing his innocence, Abu-Jamal was railroaded to Pennsylvania’s death row until December 2011, when a global movement succeeded in winning his release into the general prison population. This movement won’t stop until Abu-Jamal is released from [...]
Until recently, Glenville — an African-American neighborhood on Cleveland’s economically depressed East Side — was best known for its 1968 rebellion against poverty and police brutality. On July 23, 1967, a gun battle between members of the Republic of New Libya — who had purchased weapons for self-defense after repeated attacks by police — and [...]
On Friday, May 17th, the People’s Organization for Progress will hold an informational picket at Newark’s City Plex 12 Movie Theatres for their decision to ban the critically acclaimed documentary, “Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal.” It will take place at 5:30 p.m. […]
