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A Voice from America’s Black Belt

Carla Bell Los Angeles Review of Books
Bakari Sellers is one of the most promising activist political leaders in Southern, and perhaps national politics. "“I’ve geared my life towards understanding who I am and fighting against systemic oppression and injustices,” he says.

No Justice. No Peace.

Mehrsa Baradaran The American Prospect
Underlying the nationwide protests for black lives is the racial wealth gap.

Fight for Rights, Will to Power: The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

Greg Tate British Film Institute
Greg Tate explores the shifting struggles for black equality – and identity – presented in the Swedish television archives (filmed from 1967 - 1975) originally released as a film in 2011 and currently streaming on Amazon Prime and YouTube.

Let Them Eat Weapons: Trump’s Bizarre Arms Race

Lawence Wittner History News Network
In a fresh challenge to Russia and China, delivered in October 2018, Trump extolled, “Let it be an arms race. We will outmatch them at every pass and outlast them all. We have more money than anybody else, by far.”

The Fire This Time

Scholars for Social Justice Boston Review
These protests are too widespread to go away. There will be no peace without justice on multiple fronts.