North America

Another look at Martin Luther King Jr.

“I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic…” Martin Luther King Jr. said this in a letter to his future wife Coretta Scott on 18 July 1953.

The rising tide of racism is borne out of a recycled old belief that black and brown people are genetically inferior.

Any Pan-Africanist worth his/her salt would harbour not an iota of hesitance to call out President Donald Trump for the racist undertone of the “Shit Hole” comment attributed to him, albeit which he has denied making.

Sometimes it helps to start an essay with a quote that sums up one’s position.

When it comes to racial discrimination in the World Bank, Phyllis Muhammad, former Staff Counselor, has seen it all. She noted recently that: The level of racial injustice that we are seeing under Kim “would not have persisted during Wolfensohn’s time.

An elitist, nationalist bias dominates all areas of Canada’s newspaper of record.

“The spirit of Black August moves through centuries of Black, Indian and multi-cultural resistance. It is an emblem of the spirit of freedom.”- Mumia Abu Jamal

Endless war has been a staple of the Obama era.

Beginning with the contention that most white people view racism conceptually as bad, evil or at least something that is undesirable to be associated with, it is disheartening to see so much support for reactionary #AllLivesMatter, #BlueLivesMatter and similar