Officer Acquitted in Ohio Shooting
A white police officer was acquitted Wednesday in the shooting death of an unarmed black man, a killing that sparked the city’s worst racial unrest in three decades.
H.Con.Res 227 condemns “bigotry and violence” against Arab Americans.
I have difficulties with nearly every line of this resolution, as much for what it doesn’t include — ‘racism’, ‘racist’, ‘hate’ do not appear — as for what it does.
It seems to predicate its condemnation on there being “good” people of color; it seems to appeal to […]
“The most visible symbol in New York is the spirit of a free people.”–Mayor Giuliani
First, I really must echo Joan Walsh’s tribute to New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani: He’s been amazing. New York has been amazing. Except, alas, for Senator Clinton, which really breaks my heart. I’m no fan of Pataki or Giuliani, but they, […]
By now everyone knows the details of the terrorist attacks that took place on Tuesday in New York and Washington D.C. In the months ahead there will be time to talk about the degree to which U.S. foreign policy contributes to international terrorism, and the degree to which that policy is explicitly and implicitly […]
Makani N. Themba, Durban Diary: Up Close and Black at WCAR
As I look out the window of my high-rise hotel, I see lots of Black folk that I feel strong kinship with but I know in many ways we are different. Fifty percent of the very poor n Durban, just beyond my hotel, are Black. […]
Salih Booker, Making a Statement in Durban
It is important this historic world summit on racism focus on four points. One is a declaration that the slave trade and the enslavement of Africans were crimes against humanity. Two, the right to reparations for slavery, colonialism, apartheid, and continuing racism. Three, the cancellation of Africa’s external debts. […]
Ron Daniels, The World Conference Against Racism: America Exposed as a Hypocrite and Coward
How is it that a nation whose pledge of allegiance includes the words “one nation under God with liberty and justice for all” could refuse to face up to the past and present injustices committed against the sons and daughters of Africa […]
When Race Burns Class: “Settlers” Revisited — An Interview With J. Sakai
EC: In the early eighties you wrote Settlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat, a book which had a major impact on many North American anti-imperialists. How did this book come about, and what was so new about its way of looking at things?
JS: Settlers […]
Remembering Fanon
Forty years after Frantz Fanon died in 1961 at the National Institute of Health, in Bethesda, Md., David Macey has written a new biography of him. Macey’s FRANTZ FANON, at 516 pages, is the most voluminous biography yet of this great revolutionary thinker. The reader is taken on a long journey through Fanon’s lifetime […]