By bell hooks
Living in a White-supremacist culture, Black people receive the message daily, through both mass media and our interactions with an unenlightened White world, that to be Black is to be inferior and subordinate. Our Blackness is seen as a threat to be subdued or eliminated. Such a cultural context hardly prepares us to [...]

By Tim Wise
Hillary Clinton is finished, and contrary to the insistence of many of her supporters, sexism has had virtually nothing to do with it.
Gloria Steinem was wrong in her now infamous New York Times op-ed a few months back. Clinton’s problem was not that she was a woman and that ‘women are never front-runners’ [...]

Let’s talk about Iraq… Iraq & Middle East Peace Forum at Cal State LA
Thursday, May 29th - 7:30 p.m.
Cal State Los Angeles
5151 State University Dr., Los Angeles
Golden Eagle Building, 3rd Floor, Ballroom
Speakers Include:
Raed Jarrar is an Iraqi political analyst and consultant to American Friends Service Committee’s Iraq Program currently based in Washington, D.C. After [...]

By Daniel B. Holzman-Tweed
The idea that “whiteness” as an identity is something that an individual can choose to embrace or reject is purely a product of white privilege.
It is philosophically founded on identity as the product of individual choice rather than societal assignment. The idea is itself manifestly false. I am white not because I [...]

“Forging a Black Liberation Agenda for the 21st Century”
Black Radical Congress, June 20-22, 2008, St. Louis, Missouri
With the launch of the Black Radical Congress (BRC) in 1998, a current of optimism rippled through the social justice movement. In the tradition of other black political gatherings such as the National Negro Congress, the National Black Political [...]