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Black Politics

Fire of the Soul

Brian Young Jr. · February 28, 2022

Poem by Brian Young Jr.

Walking in Mamie Till Mobley’s Footsteps

Dorothy Holmes · November 17, 2021

Dorothy Holmes reflects on how her personal grief compels her to work toward collective justice.

A lattice of thick white lines grafts onto an indigo-purple gradient, with the word "Ambe" appearing in the interstices.

Ambe: The Space Between Us

Patty Krawec · June 14, 2021

Colonial systems and modes of thought shape and sever our relationships to one another and the world around us. Black and Indigenous literatures point toward a different kind of relationship.

Black and Palestinian Solidarities

Khury Petersen-Smith, Eve L. Ewing · June 3, 2021

The oppression of Black people and the oppression of Palestinians are linked, but so are their resistances to colonization and US empire. Khury Petersen-Smith speaks with Eve L. Ewing about Black and Palestinian solidarity.

Black and Red Part 2

Myths of White Supremacy and Black Radicalism

Sam Hess · May 13, 2021

From “race reductionism” to “dupes of Moscow.” many myths about Black radicalism and white supremacy still circulate today. In this roundtable, Charisse Burden-Stelly, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Barbara Smith provide an important counter.

"Black & Red Part I" overlays an image of Pettis Perry and Claudia Jones in the CPUSA office in Harlem (1953). Jones is holding "We Appeal to You for a Fair Trial" advertisement by the Smith Act Self-Defense Committee (1953).

Repression and Black Radical History

Charisse Burden-Stelly, Robin D. G. Kelley, Barbara Smith, Brian Jones, Jeanne Theoharis · May 12, 2021

The socialist movement in this country was at its strongest when it developed deep ties to the movement for Black liberation. In this roundtable, Charisse Burden-Stelly, Robin D.G. Kelley, and Barbara Smith reflect on key moments of this historic connection.

Ambe: A Year of Indigenous Reading

Patty Krawec · April 14, 2021

Reading Indigenous literature matters because Indigenous people matter. The organizer of a powerful reading group on Indigenous and Black stories and histories reflects on their ongoing experience.

Deadlier Than a Pandemic

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Anton Ford · November 19, 2020

A new study shows that Black people die at a higher rate in a normal year than the rate of white people dying from the pandemic this year. In this interview, the author of the research explains its significance.

Black Lives Matter and the Power of History

Donna Murch, Todd Chretien, Brais Fernández · November 1, 2020

African Americans have mobilized against the police to defend Black life since the 1960s and before. For this cycle of massive urban rebellion to succeed in changing the racist structures of society, it will require learning from this history and struggles abroad.

All of Them Are Guilty

Dorothy Holmes · October 29, 2020

Dorothy Holmes reflects on her unending struggle for justice for her son, Ronald Johnson, on the sixth anniversary of his murder by Chicago police.

Reparations for Slavery and Settler Colonialism

Dina Gilio-Whitaker, Bill Fletcher Jr., Symone Baptiste · September 3, 2020

Black and Indigenous solidarity is crucial to the liberation of us all. It's time we talk about what it will take to repair the historical wounds of slavery, genocide, and their interconnections.

A Central Cog of Racist Order

Kevin Moore · July 31, 2020

Simon Balto's Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power tells the racist history and development of the Chicago Police Department.

Learning from Multiracial Radical Organizing in 1930s Chicago

Tyler Zimmer · July 28, 2020

In the 1930s the Communist Party in Chicago was a vibrant, multiracial organization with thousands of members that actively fought against racism and class inequality. There is much socialists today can learn from its successes and failures.

Black and Indigenous Solidarity

Charlie Aleck · July 17, 2020

As people rise up against racism and police terror, the need for Black and Indigenous solidarity is as necessary as ever.

The Black Abolitionist Network

Jasson Perez, brian bean · July 10, 2020

An organizer with a new network of Black abolitionists talks about organizing amid rebellion.

All I Want is Collective Liberation

Samer Owaida · July 3, 2020

A speech from this year's Pride Without Prejudice march connecting the struggle against anti-Black racism and transphobia to the liberation of Palestine and the destruction of capitalism.

DePaul University and the Fraternal Order of Police

Fae Robertson · July 2, 2020

A student organizer discusses a campaign to end the relationship between police and the nation's largest Catholic university.

I Saw My Friends Beaten by Police. This Is What Happens When Cities Prioritize Property Over Black Lives.

Todd St Hill · June 17, 2020

As city after city began to rise up demanding an end to racist police brutality particularly toward Black people, I knew — as everyone with eyes and ears knew — that it was only a short matter of time before Chicago had its own explosion in response to the horrific murder of George Floyd. The …

Poverty Policing Pandemic

Demetrius Noble · June 12, 2020

An urgent poem for these times of rebellion.

Black Lives Matter and COVID-19

Frank Chapman, Alyx Goodwin, Todd St Hill, Haley Pessin, Khury Petersen-Smith, Damon Williams, Aislinn Pulley, brian bean · April 23, 2020

Antiracist activists and organizers from around the country describe what Black Lives Matter means in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Turning Pain into Action

Dorothy Holmes · April 7, 2020

Dorothy Holmes recounts her fight just to learn the basic facts of her son’s murder and how she has fueled her long struggle toward justice with generosity.

What is Owed

Aislinn Pulley · February 22, 2020

Slavery was torture. Reparations for police torture in Chicago are a key part of building the larger reparations movement.

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