Nationwide unrest has forced the black quisling class to reveal themselves as agents of the racial and economic status quo, writes Margaret Kimberley.
Category: Race Relations
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Trump & US ‘Insurrection’
Using federal troops to quell citizen unrest is nothing new in America, but Trump is on shaky ground.
LEE CAMP: Nineteen Facts About American Policing That Will Blow Your Mind
Just a few facts will change everything you think you know about American police, writes Lee Camp, with pictures by Eleanor Goldfield from the streets of downtown Washington.
UPRISING: Riot or Resistance: Media Framing Shapes Public View
The role journalists play can be indispensable if movements are to gain legitimacy and make progress, writes Danielle K. Kilgo.
25 YEARS OF CN: ‘A Distant Echo on Race and Police’—Aug. 24, 2017
This is the 8th story in our series looking back on a quarter century of reporting by Consortium News.
UPRISING: Trump Threatens to Grab Protestors By the Posse
UPDATE: Donald Trump has threatened to unleash “the unlimited power of our Military” to quell the Minnesota uprising, using the U.S. army to essentially “invade” a state without a governor’s consent, writes Joe Lauria.
Lynching Preachers: How Black Pastors Resisted Jim Crow & White Pastors Incited Racial Violence
Malcolm Brian Foley looks into the latest data on the murders committed by white mobs in America.
Scoundrels and Reparations
Even though it’s a clearcut matter of justice, reparations require black people to develop more of a consensus before any national discussion, writes Margaret Kimberly.
Billions of Swedish Krona Supported Anti-Apartheid Struggle
Birgitta Karlström Dorph was on a secret mission in South Africa between 1982 and 1988, writes Ida Karlsson.
The Meaning of ‘Humanitarian Aid’
A poem by the late Salvadoran radical Roque Dalton helps to clarify what is going on in Venezuela, writes Vijay Prashad.