Chimamanda Adichie on her Newsnight appearance: “I felt upset and ambushed”
Two weeks ago, BBC Newsnight contacted my manager to ask for an interview with me. I would be interviewed by the presenter, they said, and would broadly be asked about…
Hundreds Join Anti-Trump Protest in London
Anti-racism protesters gathered outside the US Embassy in London clash with 3 right-wing disrupters from EDL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iBVL1Rjuxk&feature=youtu.b BY MANISHA GANGULY| Thursday 9th November 2016 More than two hundred anti-racism protesters gathered…
WATCH: This Slam Poem Attacks Sexual Harassment Faced by North Eastern Women
Vinatoli Yeptho, a 22-year-old law student from National University of Juridical Sciences in Kolkata takes on stereotyping and sexual harassment faced by North Eastern womyn in India. Titled “Five rules…
Which Africans Are You Talking About?
[In the light of the recent attacks on people of African origins living in India, which is a part of a long chain of racially motivated violence against the African…
A Death In Ferguson: The State’s Message, And Our Message Back
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these…
#4thprecinctshutdown – Photostory And Updates From The Occupation
IN PHOTOS: 4thprecinctshutdown, Minneapolis Photos by Tay Griffin ____________________________ Activists from Black Lives Matter and other protestors at the #4thPrecinctShutDown have reported that white supremacists came to the protest, and…
Anonymous Reveals Ku Klux Klan’s Identities: Operation #OpKKK
Anonymous has revealed a list of KKK members in light of the Ferguson protests as part of #OpKKK and a cyberwar against the organization. The ‘de-hooding’ of Ku Klux Klan…
“Free All Political Prisoners”: Assata Shakur
On June 11th, International Day of Solidarity with All Long-Term Political Prisoners, we express our solidarity by sharing an open letter written by Assata Shakur, in Havana, Cuba, dated Oct.…
Breathless (Fight to correct)
The awful news takes our breath away and after a long pause it returns as a troubled sigh. We all wait breathlessly for the decision by those in control, those…
#WeCantBreathe : A protester on Eric Garner, activism and police as a universal threat to security
'When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.' In a comment on "post-racial" America, NYPD executed an innocent black man on July 17, 2014,by putting him in an illegal chokehold. The…
Last-lines art inspired by Ferguson shooting
10 days after the shooting of the unarmed Black teen, Michael Brown in Ferguson,Missouri, and a torrent of racial discourse later, Shirin Barghi, an Iranian journalist and artist released a series of…
alternate names for black boys
By Danez Smith 1. smoke above the burning bush 2. archnemesis of summer night 3. first son of soil 4. coal awaiting spark & wind 5. guilty until proven dead 6. oil heavy starlight 7. monster until proven ghost 8. gone 9. phoenix who forgets to un-ash 10. going, going, gone 11. gods of shovels & black veils 12. what once passed for kindling 13. fireworks at dawn 14. brilliant, shadow hued coral 15. (I thought to leave this blank but who am I to name us nothing?) 16. prayer who learned to bite…