U.S.
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Wall of Shame: Racists
In the wake of the George Zimmerman verdict, racists have shown their true colors. We’ve seen… the white supremacy apologists, the “I’m not racist, but”...
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Race Baiting? Our System Has Failed
By Alice Hunt Dear white friends—particularly my white, female friends—our system has failed us. This failure became ever more clear to me when I saw...
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Carrying Trayvon’s Body: What is to be done?
By Shana Redmond To live in this world as Black people is to be confronted by the possibility of harm at every turn, to live...
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Racial Cowardice, White Denial: Post Racial Delusions in the Era of Zimmerman
The killing of Trayvon Martin, the trial of George Zimmerman, and the aftermath illustrate how much race matters. Yet the response from many, particularly white...
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Trayvon and George: Why This Case is Really about Women
By Kelly Macías Like many other Americans, over the last three weeks I was firmly gripped by the George Zimmerman trial. I watched with anxiety...
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A Statement on the Reclamation of All Black Life: For Trayvon, Marissa, & Jordan
By Brothers Writing to Live We begin this collective statement by proclaiming a truth that has been rehearsed on countless occasions by many before us: The...
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“We’re” Not Raising Trayvon: The Difference Whiteness Makes
In the hours and days following the Zimmerman verdict, a kind of racial segregation has re-surfaced, not in formal, legal terms but with regard to...
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No Justice for Trayvon: White Women in the Jury Box
During the trial of George Zimmerman for the murder of Trayvon Martin, considerable media coverage surrounded the selection of six women for jury duty. Perhaps, some speculated,...
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White Female Jurors and Florida Justice
By Zillah Eisenstein I am white and female, like the almost-white jury that acquitted Zimmerman of murdering Trayvon Martin. But I am also an anti-racist...
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Assata IS Free
By Safiya Olugbala We would meet in the dreamworld where it was safe for me to ask you anything and no one would hear the...
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What Will It Take to Free Our Political Prisoners?
By Liz Derias The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM), a revolutionary organization based in the u.s. that fights to uphold the self-determination and the human...
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What Assata Shakur Means to Me
By Randall C. Bailey As I have reviewed the life of Assata Shakur, I am reminded of the history of Black struggles in the US...
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The Black as the Thing in Deck-Erinnerung
By Athi Mongezeleli Joja “For the Negro who works on a sugar plantation in Le Robert, there is only one solution: to fight.” – Frantz...
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What Assata Means to Me
By Amira Davis The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., was, for me, a politicizing moment. It was then I realized, you could die for...
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On Assata
By Darol Kay I can’t quite pinpoint my first memory of Assata Shakur. Her story was not included in the endless number of VHS tapes...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Dear Assata: You Are More of a Woman than America Told You
By Christine Ohenewah Recent news about the FBI’s latest addition to their Most Wanted Terrorist list and the strong recommendation of my mentor prompted me...
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What Assata Means to Me….
By Layla Kristy Feghali “i have been locked by the lawless. Handcuffed by the haters. Gagged by the greedy. And, if i know anything at...
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Assata: The Rose That Grew from Concrete
by Rizvana Bradley The trial scene that concludes the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God glimpses a specific form of panoptic enclosure that has given...
