Racism and Self-Determination

Carl Hampton honored on 45th anniversary of assassination

On July 26, 1970, the Houston Police Department gunned down a 21-year-old leader of Houston’s Black community, Carl Hampton, after…

August 7, 2015

Black woman found dead in jail cell

Aug. 2 — Ralkina Jones is yet another African-American woman who died in police custody under suspicious circumstances. Jones, 37-years-old,…

August 6, 2015

Killer cop charged in murder of Sam Dubose in Cincinnati

The terrifying video of an African-American motorist’s life being snuffed out by a white racist cop, University of Cincinnati police…

August 6, 2015

60,000 signatures demand justice for Tamir Rice

It has been eight months since the police killing of the 12-year-old Black youth, Tamir Rice, in a Cleveland park.…

August 6, 2015

War on migrants continues unabated

While the courts quibble with the Obama administration on his November executive action, hundreds of thousands of workers continue to…

August 5, 2015

Police terror rises

One year after Mike Brown’s murder A Department of Justice study completed earlier this year and released to the press…

August 4, 2015

Sandra Bland—#Say Her Name

Houston, Aug. 3 -- At every progressive political event in Texas since July 13, the name Sandra Bland has been…

August 3, 2015

Cleveland Black Lives Convening: ‘One of the best experiences of my life’

Imani Henry, an organizer of the People’s Power Assembly, attended the Movement for Black Lives National Convening at Cleveland State…

August 3, 2015

‘Locked up, unheard’

The New York Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement held a strong protest at Union Square on July 23. Led…

August 2, 2015

Black Lives Convening: A pivotal moment for liberation

Cleveland -- From July 24 to July 26, over 1,500 registered Black activists and organizers from all over the U.S.,…

July 31, 2015