The Deal of the Century will be catastrophic for Palestinians, disregarding their rights and demands for self-determination, return and liberation.
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Too black for Brazil | Guardian Docs
Nayara Justino thought her dreams had come true when she was selected as the Globeleza carnival queen on one of Brazil’s biggest TV shows.
How Are Capitalism and Racism Connected?
Healthcare in America Is Structural Racism. Didn’t They Teach You That in Medical School?
Requiring our citizens to demonstrate engagement in the workforce in order to access healthcare is at odds with health care as a human right.
Image credit: Black Lives Matter Los Angeles
It’s Bigger than Police: White-Supremacist Capitalism and State-Sanctioned Violence Against Black People
While attention on the policing system and reimagined visions of public safety are necessary endeavors, Black liberation requires that we examine the larger systems that require and benefit from police violence.
Image by Lucy Lu Liu.
Rage Against the Narrative: How to Understand Psychic Violence and Murder
Part III: History, Hope and Truth to Power
By Lisa Brock, Senior Editor
America’s 45th presidency of Donald Trump has pulled the ugly scab off the bloody sore of racial capitalism and heteropatriarchy baked into the body politic of the United States. Often covered up through myths of American exceptionalism and mainstream denials, the last two years have illustrated for all to see what many communities in the US and throughout the world have experienced: falsehoods, theft and fascist, genocidal practices.
The Rape of Recy Taylor: How Rosa Parks Helped a Sharecropper Report Her Assault and Seek Justice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BJgNUrS38c A new film looks at the 1944 gang rape of Recy Taylor, a 24-year old black mother and sharecropper. Following the rape, she refused to be silenced and spoke up with help from the NAACP’s chief rape investigator Rosa Parks. When Parks went to interview Taylor, the local sheriff kept driving by the house and eventually burst in, threatening Parks with arrest if she didn’t leave town. Parks left and then launched the Alabama Committee for Equal Justice for Mrs. Recy Taylor, triggering a movement to seek justice 11 years before Parks became a civil rights hero for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, launching the Montgomery bus boycott. We speak with the film’s director, Nancy Buirski, and with Yale historian Crystal Feimster, author of “Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching.”