Cross-posted from Double Consciousness. [Hat tip: xMabaitx and SF Chronicle]...

Cross-posted from The Mustard Seed. Lani Silver, a native of San Francisco and an anti-racist teacher and activist, who founded the Bay Area Holocuast Oral History Project, passed away, just found out through San Francisco supervisor Eric Mar on his Facebook: Lani’s work with the Holocaust lea...

In a recent Crossing the Line podcast , Seth Porcello interviewed Juliano Mer - Khamis , a director of the Freedom Theater in the Jenin refugee camp, a theater for children. Mer - Khamis gives us these solemn words of wisdom: The Palestinian people are going to be cut into fragments, which has alrea...

I enjoy his plays and movies but I’ve always felt the same as Nichole here about his portrayal of women, which is not all that great: There is little to dispute that [Tyler Perry's] target audience is Black women, so let’s look at the message we’ve received so far from the play. A beautifu...

Cross-posted from The Mustard Seed. Related blog posts: Fruitvale Bart Station Protest: The Rally, The Riot, Bloggers on the Oakland Riots, “To survive in these times,” Grant’s Killer Arrested. Yesterday I was able to meet up with some friends, comrades, and kasamas during the prot...

Thought I’d share this post with you guys. I got an e-mail a few hours ago from Mahmoud Hossam, a reporter for El Badeel, a newspaper in Egypt. I’m sort of their labor liaison and beat reporter (thanks to Hossam who is an editor there) for America due to my work with the International Br...

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It’s really hard to find out about anything of this security pact with the woeful situation our media is in. All I’ve been seeing on TV is Americans talking to American anchors and American colleges about the American-Iraqi Security pact. This is a news show from Al Jazeera English which...

Ann blogs: When many people think of queer youth, the image of white boys and girls comes to mind. The voices of black and brown queer youth are silenced; the faces of black and brown queer youth are invisible. Black and brown queer youth are desparately seeking their own space to love—-and be lov...