Politics

This erudite collection of writings from leading lights in the African literary community pays tribute to Ama Ata Aidoo through a broad spectrum of articles and personal memoirs from scholars of different generations and from other literary artists. The...

Unequal taxes, unequal accountability for crime, unequal influence, unequal control of the media, unequal access to natural resources--corporations have gained these privileges and more by exploiting their legal status as persons. How did something so...

A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US.   In 1958 in Accra, Ghana, the Hands Off Africa conference brought together the leading figures of African...

Should we legalize marijuana? If we legalize, what in particular should be legal? Just possessing marijuana and growing your own? Selling and advertising? If selling becomes legal, who gets to sell? Corporations? Co-ops? The government? What regulations...

The death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, and the ensuing trial of Derek Chauvin for murder a year later has rubbed raw the bloodiest stain on the United States' history and its world reputation. The nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds during which...

Frantz Fanon's seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian RevolutionPsychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time, the author of such seminal works of modern revolutionary...

In the tradition of James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son, Robeson's A Black Way of Seeing melds history and analysis in a sweeping panorama of the present moment as we know it to be--scathing in its understanding of why Black empowerment has failed and...

The remarkable stories of nine US Representatives who helped shape America. Courage in the People's House tells the gripping stories of nine individuals who served in the US House of Representatives--the "People's House"--during a span of over one...

A Fox News political analyst tackles some of our communities' toughest challenges with timely insight from his own life: the story of how conservative values helped a kid from the South Side of Chicago find a life of opportunity."A must-read."--Brian...

Following in the footsteps of Robeson, Ali, Robinson and others, today's Black athletes re-engage with social issues and the meaning of American patriotism Named a best book of 2018 by Library Journal It used to be that politics and sports were as...

In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city ganglife, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depthportrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigationthat landed eight gang members in prisonSandtown is...

Nine days that set the course of a nation... Johannesburg, Easter weekend, 1993. Nelson Mandela has been free for three years and is in slow-moving power-sharing talks with President FW de Klerk when a white supremacist shoots Mandela's popular young...

Against the Carceral Archive is a meditation upon what author Damien M. Sojoyner calls the "carceral archival project," offering a distillation of critical, theoretical, and activist work of prison abolitionists over the past three decades. Working from...

The history of Black people in Britain is centuries long. Although integral to, and indivisible from 'British history, ' it is usually treated as a footnote - or forgotten altogether. But with the flourishing of the Black Lives Matter uprisings, and...