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The Confederate memorials throughout the South have been a regular eyesore for Black people for too long. Before Dylann Roof’s massacre in Charleston, I had always thought their removal was extremely unlikely. Now that some locations in the South are finally ridding themselves of these symbols of white supremacy, the pushback against their removal raises questions about what they really represent. This conflict is about more than how we remember history and it’s about more than the preservation of Confederate memorials. It seems that for defenders of these memorials, taking down the statues is a concession of sorts that whiteness is no longer valued above all else. Ultimately, the attempt to preserve these memorials is about preserving ideological whiteness and white supremacy. (more…)
Race, Class, & Immigration
The intersectionality of racism, classism, and immigration policy is as pertinent today as in the past. Who is deemed legal and illegal, afforded full citizenship rights or not, is almost always determined by master-class politics and race.
Fire From Below: Advice For Activism in The Trump Era From Bill Ayers
By Ryan Alexander-Tanner | The Nib
The Lit Review: No Justice, No Pride
The Praxis Center is proud to feature The Lit Review’s weekly interviews conducted by hosts Monica Trinidad and Page May. Every week, the hosts of The Lit Review chat with people they love and respect about relevant books on Black … Continue reading
“Thinking Black” Against the Carceral State: Angela Davis and Prisoner Defense Campaigns
By Dan Berger | Black Perspectives The stirring directive sounded like the denouement of a legal thriller: “I am going to ask you, if you will, for the next few minutes to think Black with me—to BE black,” famed defense … Continue reading
Bresha Is Still Not Free: The Criminal Legal System Fails Another Black Girl
By #FreeBresha Campaign On May 22, 2017, 15 year old Bresha Meadows accepted a plea deal that would reduce the charge against her of aggravated murder to involuntary manslaughter with a gun specification. Bresha, as a part of the plea deal, … Continue reading
Welcome Home Oscar López Rivera
By Barbara Ransby Last week, hundreds of people welcomed political prisoner Oscar López Rivera home with a march and celebration in Chicago’s Puerto Rican neighborhood, Humboldt Park. Before leaving office, President Barack Obama commuted his 55-year sentence, and Rivera Lopez … Continue reading
Why I Demonstrated on Mother’s Day
By Monica Cosby This past Saturday, the day before Mother’s Day, Moms United Against Violence and Incarceration, hosted an Incarcerated Mom’s Day Vigil and Toiletry Drive outside Cook County Jail. We’ve been doing this for 3 years running. As an … Continue reading
Why I Declined an Award from My University
By Therese Quinn Open Letter to The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Education April 29, 2017 Office of the Dean The University of Illinois at Chicago 1040 W. Harrison St. (MC 147) Chicago IL 60607 Dear Dean Alfred … Continue reading
There is No Climate Justice without Racial Justice
By Thenjiwe McHarris, Movement for Black Lives Contributing Editor’s Note by Dara Cooper On April 4, the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, the Movement for Black Lives [M4BL] launched Beyond the Moment: United Movements from April 4th … Continue reading
#IslamophobiaIsRacism Syllabus
By Su’ad Abdul Khabeer, Arshad Ali, Evelyn Alsultany, Sohail Daulatzai, Lara Deeb, Carol Fadda, Zareena Grewal, Juliane Hammer, Nadine Naber, and Junaid Rana | #IslamophobiaIsRacism Inspired by the #FergusonSyllabus, the #StandingRockSyllabus, the #BlackIslamSyllabus and others, this reading list provides resources for teaching … Continue reading
MLK Called for a “Radical Revolution of Values.” The Movement for Black Lives Delivers One.
By Barbara Ransby | In These Times 50 years ago today, King blasted militarism, racism and poverty in his “Beyond Vietnam” speech. The new Beyond the Moment campaign carries forward his radical vision. April 4 marks the 50th anniversary of Martin … Continue reading
Tips for Responding to Racist Attacks
By Aaryn Lang “Don’t Be a Bystander: 6 Tips for Responding to Racist Attacks”— a 4 minute video created by the Barnard Center for Research on Women and Project NIA— offers an abolitionist approach to bystander intervention in response to … Continue reading
Sawubona (I see you): Memory and Social Justice in South Africa
By Lisa Brock, Senior Editor This piece is dedicated to my comrade and friend Ahmed “Kathy” Kathrada, who passed away earlier this week. As one of the Rivonia Eight, he spent 25 years in prison with Mandela. In 2009, he … Continue reading
After Seven Long Years, Freedom: An Interview With Marissa Alexander
By Victoria Law | Truthout As the clock struck midnight on January 26, Marissa Alexander was finally able to pull off her ankle monitor. The Florida mother of three was officially done with her two-year sentence of home confinement and electronic monitoring. … Continue reading
Resisting the Trump/DeVos Education Agenda: What Will It Take?
By Pauline Lipman Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, a millionaire privatizer, made her name in Michigan with for-profit charter schools and a preference for private Christian schools. Her vision is to gut public education and teacher unions and replace public schools … Continue reading
