Liberation
US News By Hannah Grossman, Fox News Published March 13, 2024, 6:59 p.m. ET The City of College Park, Maryland, hired a “racial equity” leader to spearhead its mission to eliminate systemic racism in its departments who has made statements defending violence and promoting the idea of a revolution against the United States. Kayla Aliese Carter supports […]
Israel, with America’s help, has done exactly that. It has repeatedly undermined Palestinians who sought to end Israel’s occupation through negotiations or nonviolent pressure. As part of the 1993 Oslo Accords, the Palestine Liberation Organization renounced violence and began working with Israel — albeit imperfectly — to prevent attacks on Israelis, something that revolutionary groups […]
Dr. Shakur was involved in Black liberation organizations such as the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) and the Republic of New Afrika, and he also dedicated his life to holistically treating and transforming the lives of working class drug addicts in the radical Lincoln Detox Center. On the night of July 6, revolutionary and former political […]
In pressing times like these, Rev. Calvin Taylor Skinner reflects on how the Black prophetic voice continues to provide guidance. “Notes on faith” is theGrio’s inspirational, interdenominational series featuring Black thought leaders across faiths. On this Independence Day weekend, our nation needs deep reflection and renouncement. Just as gifted songstress Nina Simone once expressed her […]
Attachments We, the Government of the Republic of Colombia and the Ejército de Liberación Nacional – ELN (National Liberation Army), with a view to resolving the armed conflict that has been under way for six decades, eradicating violence as a means of addressing political, economic and social conflicts, reaching an agreement on democratic transformations and […]
In March 1774, Prince Grigory Potemkin, the favorite general and sometime lover of Catherine the Great, took control of the anarchic southern frontier of her empire, a region previously ruled by the Mongol Khans, the Cossack hosts, and the Ottoman Turks, among others. As viceroy, Potemkin waged war and founded cities, among them Kherson, the […]
This piece was originally published in The Nation on April 25, 2023. It is shared here with permission. On July 29, 2022, Omali Yeshitela and his wife, Ona Zene, awoke at 5 o’clock in the morning to the sound of flash grenades and drones, as heavily armed FBI agents stormed into their home searching for evidence […]
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Over the weekend, Russian forces withdrew from Kherson in Ukraine, a city of more than 280,000. It’s a big win for the Ukrainian people and for its military, one senior military official said during a briefing today at the Pentagon. “The most significant development over the weekend was the Russian military’s withdrawal from Kherson City and […]
A review of Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927, Jeffrey B Perry (Columbia University Press, 2021), £30 Hubert Harrison was a black revolutionary intellectual and sometime innovative Marxist who debated the relations between race and class, socialism and imperialism in ways that remain relevant, despite his death almost a century ago. His story reflects […]