Racism

The Power of Black Self-Defense in Lincoln Heights

February 12, 2025 UNAC Editor Nazis, Neo-Nazis, Racism, Resistance, The War at Home, White Supremacy

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, February 12, 2025 When Nazis appear in public they must be quickly dispatched. The people of a Black town in Ohio did just that and then acted to arm and defend themselves. While there are endless think pieces written on the phenomenon of Donald Trump’s second ascendancy to the white house, working[…]

The Fightback Road to Counter Trump 2.0’s Shock and Awe, America First and White Supremacy

February 2, 2025 UNAC Editor Action!!, Democracy and Consent, Fascism, Racism, Resistance, Rights of Opressed Peoples, The War at Home

by Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard, published on Socialist Action, January 26, 2025 Donald J. Trump was sworn in for his second term as president at 12 Noon, January 20, in the Capital building in Washington, D.C. that was violently assaulted by his far-right supporters four years earlier, in an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election when he lost[…]

The Black Alliance for Peace Welcomes the Release of Leonard Peltier and Demands Unrestricted Release of all U.S. Political Prisoners

January 31, 2025 UNAC Editor Action!!, Colonialism, Native Americans, Political Prisoners, Racism, The War at Home, White Supremacy

Statement by the Black Alliance for Peace, January 28, 2025 The immoral life sentence of American Indian Movement freedom fighter, political prisoner and prisoner of war, Leonard Peltier was commuted by the U.S. President Joe Biden, only moments before Biden’s term in office ended. Now 80 years old, Peltier languished for over 50 years in prison after being unjustly convicted[…]

Justice Denied and Delayed—Leonard Peltier Commutation While Marcus Garvey Is Pardoned

January 31, 2025 UNAC Editor Native Americans, Racism, Resistance, The War at Home

by Abyome Azikiwe, published on Global Research, January 30, 2025 On this year’s annual holiday to commemorate the life, times and contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), news had quickly spread regarding the long-delayed decision to commute the life sentence of American Indian Movement (AIM) leader Leonard Peltier. Peltier was charged in the 1975 killing of two FBI[…]

The Death of DEI

January 30, 2025 UNAC Editor Protest, Racism, Systemic Racism, War on the Poor, White Supremacy

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, January 29, 2025 Black people must be discerning about racist attacks on DEI programs while also acknowledging that “diversity” can be a con that damages Black politics, just as it was meant to do. The sight of Al Sharpton holding a protest at a New York City Costco store is a sure[…]

Trump Keeps His Promises While Democrats Must Be Abandoned

January 29, 2025 UNAC Editor Democracy and Consent, Democrats and Republicans, Imperialism, Racism

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report Trump begins his term delivering on promises, but compromised and colluding democrats have ready excuses for betraying their voters. “Yet, with the return of Trump, opportunists in our communities and beyond are telling us that the real culprits in our oppression and the targets for opposition are Trump and republicans.” Black Alliance[…]

Trump’s Education Agenda for Teachers: Sanitize US History or Leave the Field

January 28, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Native Americans, Racism, Student Activists, The War at Home, US Government Action

by Jesse Hagopian, published on Truthout, January 24, 2025 Teachers fear Trump may use federal funding as a bludgeon to push “uncritical race theory” on K-12 schools and colleges. “Getting critical race theory out of our schools is not just a matter of values, it’s also a matter of national survival,” Donald Trump railed at a rally in the lead-up[…]

Joe Biden’s Terrible Legacy

January 18, 2025 UNAC Editor Democracy and Consent, Democrats and Republicans, Genocide, Racism, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine, US Politics

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, January 15, 2025 The moniker “Genocide Joe” is well deserved and one that Joe Biden can never live down, along with any other names that describe the damage he brought to the country and to the world. His legacy is that in every position he held, he was a happy servant for[…]

Israel’s Holiday Village in Gaza: The Grotesque Reality behind the Genocide

January 4, 2025 UNAC Editor Genocide, Human Rights, Hybrid Warfare, Imperial Wars, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Racism, US Intervention

by Jeremy Salt, published on Palestine Chronicles, January 1, 2024 Israel’s latest actions in Gaza, from setting up a holiday village for soldiers to the destruction of hospitals, highlight a grotesque disconnection from human suffering. The real news of the day is not that the Israeli army has set up a holiday village for tired soldiers on the coast of[…]

White Settlers Bizarre Economic Strategy of Terrorizing Black People

January 1, 2025 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Human Rights, Racism, The War at Home, War on the Poor, White Supremacy

by Jon Jeter, published on Black Agenda Report, December 11, 2024 Jordan Neely’s killing and the subsequent acquittal of Daniel Penny can be seen as part of the reactionary existential panic felt by whites whenever the country experiences growing economic instability and hardship. That jurors on Monday exonerated an ex-Marine for strangling an African American panhandler who was in mental[…]