Harry Haywood, Black People, and the 2024 U.S. Election

By Charisse Burden-Stelly On January 20, 2025, Donald Trump will sit alongside Grover Cleveland as the only U.S. President to serve two non-… Harry Haywood, Black People, and the 2024 U.S. Election Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly reminds of the prescience of Harry Haywood.

Laughing at Genocide: On Anti-Palestinian Racism in Higher Education

by Girish Daswani cover picture: Student banner, UTSC, October 2024 This post is a sequel to the April 2024 blogpost “How the University Harms … Laughing at Genocide: On Anti-Palestinian Racism in Higher Education The harms committed against Palestinian students across the globe continue, especially in the US. There are so many ways to provide […]

The Parable of the Three AUC Students

Looking back to move forward, the struggle for Black liberation is now. I offer a parable on political power beyond elections. Rest is not resistance.

The Uhuru Three, African Stream, and the Black Scare/Red Scare

The repression of Black radicalism is immense and is being perpetrated by both major political parties in the US. This is a “bi-partisan” effort, as is the Palestinian genocide. Given that Georgia has now nullified any votes casts for the Green and PSL (Marxist/Leninist) parties based on law suites brought by the Democratic (i.e. DEI […]

“Our ancestors DIED so we could vote.”

Voting was always one instrument among many, in the 500 year struggle of enslaved Africans in Abya Yala (the americas). Nobody gave their life for the “privilege” of choosing between enslavers. This article captures so much of the contradictions of this and every US farcical election cycle. By Christopher Woolf On the subject of our […]

Parable of the Rabbit

The stories of my grandmother as ancestral calls to marronage.

14 Books by Arab Women for 2024’s Women in Translation Month

By ArabLit Staff What follows are fourteen books by Arab women — written by women from across the Maghreb and Mashreq, translated to English and … 14 Books by Arab Women for 2024’s Women in Translation Month

Define Women! And Other Patriarchal Instructions

Some definitions. 1 “A woman has a vagina; a man has a penis” (some politicians, with a nod to “gender critical” feminists) 2 “A woman does not have … Define Women! And Other Patriarchal Instructions Each line in this powerful offering by Sara Ahmed is a portal into liberation from patriarchy. Like the cracking of […]

Layan Kayed: The Prison as a Text

Translated by Roba Alsalibi Since its establishment in 1948, the Israeli settler-colonial state, like other settler-colonial contexts, has employed … Layan Kayed: The Prison as a Text Layan Kayan reminds us of the power of words, of witness, as one of the most powerful tools of the oppressed. Who amongst you sees something abominable should […]

Biden at Morehouse? Nah.

Support Morehouse College students in shutting down Biden’s 2024 commencement speech at Morehouse College