Michael Brown

Big business media criminalizes victims of police killings

To further illustrate the widespread law-enforcement abuses in Ferguson, Mo., and throughout the United States, Jeffrey Williams, charged with the…

April 2, 2015

Why the April 2 People’s Tribunal is timely

The opening session of the “People’s Tribunal on Police Violence and Structural Racism” scheduled for April 2 at the National…

March 31, 2015

Ferguson community resists police terror

The police occupation of the Black community of Ferguson, Mo., is just as intense now as it was in the…

March 18, 2015

Oscars & mass incarceration show why BLACK LIVES MATTER

On Feb. 24, two days shy of the third anniversary of the vigilante murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, an African…

March 4, 2015

Black Women’s Lives Matter

The following article, slightly edited, is reprinted here courtesy of Red Flag, the publication of the militant youth group FIST…

February 28, 2015

March condemns killing of immigrant worker by cops

Pasco, Wash. -- Within days after farmworker Antonio Zambrano-Montes was killed by Pasco police, his murder was seen by over…

February 26, 2015

Justice for Mike Brown! End police terror!

Marking the six-month anniversary of the police murder of Michael Brown, activists held a protest Feb. 9 in New York…

February 11, 2015

Anti-racists dominate BART commish meeting

Oakland, Calif. -- An overflow crowd of some 400 people packed the Bay Area Rapid Transit Board of Commissioners’ meeting…

January 28, 2015

People with disabilities half of people killed by cops; disability rights groups protest

Disabled-rights groups are among the most energetic advocates of solidarity with African-American victims of police murder. Some 34 disability activist…

January 24, 2015

Dr. King and Black lives today

If the great Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, he would unequivocally lend his name…

January 16, 2015