Racism and Self-Determination

Buffalo, N.Y., residents fight gentrification

Threatened with displacement by the relentless development land grabs occurring all around them, residents of a historic Black neighborhood in…

August 11, 2016

Honoring Nate Greer: Killed by BART and Hayward police

On July 30, “A Day to Remember Our Loved Ones,” the Nate Greer family held a barbeque in Hayward, Calif.,…

August 11, 2016

Occupations amp up Black Lives Matter struggle

Activists with Millions March NYC began an occupation of New York City Hall Park the morning of Aug. 1. The…

August 9, 2016

Anti-cop-brutality activists win for women prisoners at Santa Rita Jail, Oakland, Calif.

Four activists, arrested in 2014 for protesting police brutality and killings in Oakland, Calif., filed a civil rights suit against…

August 8, 2016

WWP candidate Lamont Lilly at Black Resistance march: ‘We have to fight for ourselves’

Workers World Party vice presidential candidate Lamont Lilly gave the following speech at the Black Resistance March on the Democratic…

August 8, 2016

Protesters in Detroit say NO to Trump’s racism

Aug. 8 -- Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gave what the big-business-owned press dubbed “a major economic policy speech” in…

August 8, 2016

Rochester, N.Y., Latino/as protest in support of Black Lives Matter

Rochester, N.Y. -- On Aug. 4, a Latina/o group stunned the Rochester Police Department with a militant demonstration in front…

August 8, 2016

Remember Emmett Till and Tamir Rice!

Had it not been for the brutal, racist murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American, he would have celebrated…

August 4, 2016

Philadelphia marchers oppose Clinton and DNC racism

"Don't vote for Hillary, she's killing Black people!" a thousand protesters chanted over and over as the Black DNC Resistance…

August 4, 2016

As cops walk in Freddie Gray death, activists hit ‘miscarriage of justice’

After enormous pressure from the Fraternal Order of Police, Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby on July 27 dropped the indictments…

August 3, 2016