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The assassination of Jovenel Moise: The US-backed PHTK dictatorship marches on
Haitians protest near the Petion Ville police station in Port au Prince on July 8. Petion Ville is the neighborhood of the wealthy elite, including Juvenal Moise, who lived and was assassinated there....
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No Bratton-style policing in Oakland: Unraveling the fraying edges of zero...
by Rachel Herzing In summer 2011, following the uprisings in Britain and the proposal by Prime Minister David Cameron that former New York Police Department Commissioner and former Los Angeles Police...
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Was Oakland police consultant William Bratton involved in the failed...
by Jean Damu Hundreds of Oakland residents turned out on Jan. 15 and 22 to voice their opinions about the City Council hiring William Bratton as a $250,000 a year consultant to help bring down an...
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Report from China: ‘Human Rights Record of the United States in 2012’
by the State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China The State Department of the United States recently released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2012, posing as...
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NYC Mayor Bloomberg: Fingerprint public housing residents and visitors
by Jennifer Trent Parker In this morning’s John Gambling radio show, Mayor Michael Bloomberg criticized Davis v. City of New York, a putative class action lawsuit filed by the NAACP Legal Defense and...
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A mother’s cry
by Billie Bottom-Brown I am writing this statement with the hope of enlightening the media, social media and our United States government, attempting to make them aware of our forgotten political...
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UN Human Rights Committee finds US in violation on 25 counts
by Adam Hudson While President Obama told the country to “look forward, not backward” when it came to Bush’s torture program, the United Nations has taken a different route. Recently, the U.N. Human...
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Eric Garner, father of 6, killed in chokehold by NYPD for selling untaxed...
by Herb Boyd “I can’t breathe! I can’t breathe!” gasped Eric Garner, 43, an asthmatic father of six, as NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo held him in a death grip. Pantaleo has been accused of being heavy...
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To win justice for Michael Brown, send the Black press to Ferguson, Missouri
Listen below to JR’s first interviews: ‘Live From Ferguson: St. Louis reporter Dani Rae speaks’ and ‘Cephus ‘Uncle Bobby’ Johnson, uncle of Oscar Grant, in Ferguson’ by SF Bay View This is the official...
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Ten illegal police actions to watch for in Ferguson
by Bill Quigley “Police officers move in to arrest protesters as they push and clear crowds out of the West Florissant Avenue area in Ferguson, Mo., early Wednesday, Aug. 20,” reads the AP caption. –...
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People power grows, demands justice
by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Protesters in New York City Dec. 4 demand change after the refusal to indict the police officer who murdered Eric Garner with a chokehold. – Photo: Ellen Davidson...
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Athlete-activists can’t be scared silent after the murder of two NYPD officers
by Dave Zirin Over the last month, we have seen a veritable “Sports World Spring” as athletes have spoken out on politics in a manner unseen since the 1960s. They have been inspired by the...
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U.S. cops kill at 100 times rate of other capitalist countries
by Richard Becker Capitalist politicians here often promote the reactionary and dangerous idea of “American exceptionalism,” by which they mean that the United States is superior to all other...
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NYPD on trial: NBA player Thabo Sefolosha fights back after police beating
The police broke Thabo Sefolosha’s leg. His testimony, and the testimony of witnesses, could mean that they will not get away with it. by Dave Zirin NBA player Thabo Sefolosha had his leg broken by...
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Seven things we learned from Thabo Sefolosha’s trial
by Dave Zirin After just under an hour of deliberation, a Manhattan jury acquitted Atlanta Hawks guard Thabo Sefolosha of misdemeanor charges ranging from obstructing government administration and...
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Looking at Mugabe’s Zimbabwe and the African Union in 2015: an interview wit’...
by The People’s Minister of Information JR [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/239843645″...
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Bay Area muralist honored in ‘A New Color: The Art of Being Edythe Boone’ at...
by The People’s Minister of Information JR “My dream was to develop a new color that no one had ever seen in life. It hasn’t come true yet, but that was a dream of mine when I was a little girl,” says...
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Afeni Shakur, 1947-2016
by Mumia Abu-Jamal She was born Alice Faye Williams in the dusty little town of Lumberton, North Carolina, on Jan. 10, 1947, a dimpled little Black girl, who grew into a petite young revolutionary...
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Bold, brave & bullied: Meet the Beaumont Bulls
by Shaun King Something amazingly powerful is happening all over the country with America’s youth. In 34 states, with at least 44 high schools, 21 colleges, and two youth sports leagues, brilliant,...
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‘The public peace’: Race, class, control and the creation of the modern...
by Duncan Tarr Baltimore rose up when police murdered Freddie Gray in April 2015. Introduction On April 19, 2015, Freddie Gray of Baltimore, Maryland, was murdered by officers of the Baltimore Police...
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