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Jonathan Kozol And The Struggle Against US Apartheid

April 7, 2026 Michael K. Smith, Counter Punch. , , , ,
Although bookshelves groan under the weight of tracts about U.S. racism, no one’s writings on the topic are more unsettling than Jonathan Kozol’s. He is among our greatest and most eloquent dissenters. He writes not from studied objectivity but with an impassioned conviction that sears the conscience and haunts the soul. His books, once read, stay with you; his insights, once seen, can never again be unseen. Horrors we once attributed to happenstance or personal failure are revealed by Kozol for what they are: our society’s deliberate punishment of innocent poor people, whose very existence reminds us of moral failures we prefer to imagine do not exist. 

UIC Students Host Victory Rally After Kicking TPUSA Off Campus

March 12, 2026 Fight Back! News. , , , ,
Chicago, IL – On March 4, 30 students rallied in the quad at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). The protest, organized by New Students for a Democratic Society, was originally a counter-protest meant to happen at the same time as a Turning Point USA (TPUSA) event. TPUSA announced a “Prove me Wrong” event featuring Pastor Lucas Miles, who has a record of anti-immigrant rhetoric. Immediately after TPUSA’s announcement, SDS organized a counter-protest with the slogan, “Tell TPUSA Immigrants are Welcomed Here!” The night before the morning rally, TPUSA shared on social media that they were canceling the event “due to weather.”

Community Demands: ‘Justice For The Quakertown 5!’

March 4, 2026 Betsey Piette, Workers World. , , , ,
After 35 teenage students walked out of their high school in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, to protest the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Feb. 20, they were attacked by the town’s police chief, Scott McElree, who was not in uniform nor did he identify himself.  The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on Feb. 22, that eyewitnesses, including some who videoed the incident, claimed that McElree, dressed in plain clothes, charged into the crowd of students, pushed one boy to the ground and put one teenager in a chokehold. However, five students, some who were injured by McElree and other police officers while defending themselves, were arrested initially on simple assault charges, which were then elevated to aggravated assault, a felony, because their alleged “victim” was a police officer.  

The United States Is On The Path To Fascism; How To Change Course

March 2, 2026 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. , , , ,
Is the United States a fascist state? There is an authoritarian in the White House, systemic racism is rampant, our cities and towns are being militarized, concentration camps are under construction, and our politicians are controlled by corporations. Clearing the FOG speaks with longtime activist and lawyer, Michael Smith, host of Law and Disorder and editor of the new book, "From the Flag to the Cross: Fascism American Style", about where the United States is on the path to fascism, what we can expect and what we can do to change course. Smith explains what socialism is and why it is the solution for those who believe in democracy.

We’ve Been Here Before, And We Know What Comes Next

March 2, 2026 Kyle K. Moore, Portside. , , ,
We’re a little over a year into the second Trump presidency. That second term began with the establishment of “The Department of Governmental Efficiency” (DOGE), a sustained campaign to discredit and undermine the usefulness and work of federal institutions and employees, and the issuance of multiple executive orders rescinding prior guidance on equity, including those related to federal affirmative action. The dismantling of entire federal agencies, alongside massive cuts in their capacity to make progress toward equity goals, swiftly followed (USAID, HHS, and the Department of Education are some of the most impacted agencies).

Trump’s De Jure Racism Provides Cover For Liberals And Democrats

February 13, 2026 Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. , ,
Last week, following President Trump’s re-tweet of a video meme that depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, the U.S. exercised a national conniption that saw even members of the Republican Party, including Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), calling out the president’s racism and demanding the he take the social media post down and apologize. To be clear, the outrage was and is certainly warranted as depicting Black people as monkeys and apes is a centuries-old racist trope with the ultimate aim of dehumanization and placeism as it pertains to the positional status of Black people in the larger hierarchy of racial capitalism. 

Trump Can’t Erase Black History

February 13, 2026 Betsey Piette, Workers World. , , , ,
Philadelphia - Despite broad public opposition, on Jan. 22, National Park Service (NPS) workers carried out orders from President Donald Trump to remove display panels about the history of enslavement in the U.S. at the historic President’s House display in Philadelphia. Trump’s attempts to deny Black history are being challenged by demonstrations, mass Zoom calls and an immediate response from Avenging the Ancestors Coalition (ATAC), the Black-led group responsible for the display’s creation. At a press conference on Jan. 28, Michael Coard, leader of ATAC, stated: “If you are Black in America, you know about slavery.

Solidarity Economies And The Unmaking Of Racial Capitalism

February 6, 2026 Manifold.UMN.edu. , , , ,
Two large, painted signs sit at the entrance to the César Andreu Iglesias Community Garden, a large community garden roughly the size of a city block located in North Philadelphia. “WELCOME. BIENVENIDOS. GROW SHARE GATHER,” reads the first in lavender and green. Beside it, in yellow and red, a second sign declares, “ESTE TERRENO NO ESTA EN VENTA” (this land is not for sale). A raised fist—the universal symbol of solidarity—is painted beneath the text. Together, the two signs convey complementary messages about the garden.

Racist, Imperialist US Vassal Denmark Now Cries Over Greenland

January 25, 2026 Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. , , , ,
“A court in Denmark has ordered the government to compensate 18 civilians who were tortured during the Iraq war in an operation carried out by Iraqi security forces along with a Danish battalion.” Al Jazeera A popular meme that has circulated on social media since 2015 reads as follows. “‘I never thought leopards would eat MY face,’ sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party." The joke is usually told at the expense of people expressing buyer’s remorse upon finding themselves negatively impacted by policies they once justified supporting. 

Coretta Scott King Publicly Opposed Vietnam War Before MLK

January 19, 2026 Jesse Hagopian, Truthout. , , ,
As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids schools, states ban honest teaching about race and gender, and public officials invoke Martin Luther King Jr. to call for restraint and “civility,” King’s legacy is being aggressively stripped of its political substance. Much of the scholarship and public memory of King has long privileged his work in the South, reinforcing the idea that racism was a regional aberration rather than a national system. This narrowing also obscures the intellectual and political partnership at the heart of King’s work, particularly the leadership of Coretta Scott King, whose global vision, antiwar activism, and organizing shaped both King’s politics and the broader freedom struggle.

Minneapolis: Massive Protest Slams Reactionary Jake Lang

January 19, 2026 Jess Sundin, Fight Back! News. , , , ,
Minneapolis, MN – The People’s Action Coalition Against Trump (PACAT) organized a massive mobilization to protest Jake Lang’s planned “Crusader March,” where he announced that he would burn a Quran on the steps of City Hall before marching into the predominantly Somali Cedar-Riverside neighborhood. He and a handful of other racists were confronted by extreme cold weather. They were shut down and chased away by an overwhelming crowd of at least 1000, who answered PACAT’s call for a “Protest to defend our neighbors!”

Battle Over Facial Recognition In New Orleans

January 18, 2026 Ed Vogel, Truthout. , , ,
While New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago have all received significant attention when it comes to police use of surveillance technologies, the small city of New Orleans has for years been the laboratory for a sophisticated surveillance apparatus deployed by the city’s police department and other policing bodies. Just last year, New Orleans was in the news as the city considered setting a new surveillance precedent in the United States. First, a privately run camera network, Project N.O.L.A., was exposed for deploying facial recognition technology, including “live use” (meaning Project N.O.L.A. was identifying people in real time as they walked through the city).

Trump 2.0: A Dark Mirror Into Our Past

January 15, 2026 Willie Mack, Black Agenda Report. , , , ,
On January 7, 2026, Immigrant and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, under the control of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), shot and killed a woman, Rennee Nicole Good, as they rampaged through Minneapolis, MN, looking to kidnap any undocumented immigrant, specifically Somali immigrants, they could find. The ICE agents are in Minneapolis to—according to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem—“root out fraud, arrest perpetrators and remove criminal illegal aliens” from the U.S. The Trump administration began focusing on Minneapolis-St. Paul, home to the largest Somali community in the U.S., to investigate claims of alleged fraud by members of the Somali community.

Racists Converge On Dearborn; Protesters And Community Fight Back

November 21, 2025 Cole Hamilton, Fight Back! News. , , , ,
Dearborn, MI – On November 18, 20 protesters met at the Arab American Museum in Dearborn to confront a hate march put on by right-wingers who called for end to “Islamification.” Islamophobic marchers managed to gather a group of 30 people. The march was initially spearheaded by Anthony Hudson, an “America First” gubernatorial candidate who tried to recant his claims that Dearborn was under “Sharia law” – only to still face the protest anyways. Given Dearborn is home to many Arab and Muslim residents, the community took the threats made by Hudson and January 6 insurrectionist Jake Lang seriously and came out in crowds.

Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment By Police Task Force

November 17, 2025 Wendi C. Thomas & Katherine Burgess, Scalawag. , , , , ,
When Reggie Williams turned 18 two decades ago, his mother entrusted him with his birth certificate. Keep it on you at all times, she advised, in case you encounter police. On a recent afternoon, he had a copy in his wallet, along with his state ID, as he walked from his uptown apartment in Memphis, Tennessee, to a nearby corner store. A Memphis Police Department cruiser pulled up, and two officers questioned him: Where was he coming from? Where was he going? Williams responded, and the interrogation continued: Did he have any weapons on him? No. Any drugs? No. When asked to empty his pockets, the 39-year-old artist turned over his wallet and phone. Minutes later, four men poured out of an unmarked SUV with tinted windows. They carried rifles and wore body armor — but no identifying badges.
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