View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
Neither extreme is helpful for our liberatory work nor to those committed to that work.
Recently, I had a conversation about some young people’s obsession with getting paid for volunteer work. My friend who works with several community groups asked a…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
while Black people are always told to mind their business and keep quiet about foreign affairs that supposedly don’t concern them — the way they told Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to shut up about the Vietnam War and stick to civil rights — we should know and we should care.
Judging from the recent events in Israel and Gaza — and the failure of American political leadership to stop a Palestinian genocide funded by the U.S.…
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The African World
Editorial Board
Humans possess the ability to hold, within their minds, completely contradictory and/or inconsistent viewpoints.
When I saw the picture of tens of thousands demonstrating in Morocco’s capital Rabat in support of Palestinian self-determination, I had very mixed emotions. For sure,…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
The U.S. comes in first place in guns per capita, and has the highest firearm homicide rate of the most advanced countries in the world. Our firearm murder rate is 25 times higher than 22 other developed nations, and our gun suicide rate is eight times higher.
The recent mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, in which a gunman killed 18 people and injured 13 others before killing himself, is a reminder that gun…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Fratricide, as the latest conflict between Hamas and Israel has proven once again, only benefits the one percent of extremists on both sides.
Fratricide, as the latest conflict between Hamas and Israel has proven once again, only benefits the one percent of extremists on both sides. The Palestinian people…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
The answer to Hamas’s horrifying crimes isn’t to kill innocent Gazans — it’s to change the conditions from which this brutality sprang.
The violence in Gaza and Israel is bringing horrifying new levels of human suffering to both Israelis and Palestinians. Both sides have committed heinous violations of…
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Cover Story
Editorial Board
Predatory capitalism suggest that employers must extract surplus value from workers. That means that, despite rising worker productivity, employers would attempt to pay as little as they can.
The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 an hour since 2009. Several states have a higher minimum, but a predictable few, including Mississippi, Tennessee,…
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Cover Story
Editorial Board
Today, Black studies is under assault.
Scholarship and intellectual communities are only viable if they are dynamic and contested spaces for critical thinking and debate. Black studies began in heated struggle. Here…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
Most of the family-centered legislation that Congress passes is not based upon its grace and empathy. It is usually pressured to do so by citizens organized to advocate for families and communities.
If ever there was a clear case of capitalists’ disdain for the plight of poor and working-class people, it came with the latest statistics for the…
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Cover Story
Editorial Board
We must ensure that community voices are strengthened and sustain lest the future be determined by real estate and big corporate markets rife with concentrated wealth, and which would result in continuing gentrification and displacement, increasing income and wealth inequality, and persistent poverty.
This is a synopsis of a study published in 2016 about gentrification in Boston, Massachusetts, still one of the most segregated, and most expensive to live…
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