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Angela Davis on Prison Abolition, the War on Drugs, Why Social Movements Shouldn’t Wait on Obama, Solitary Confinement, Immigration Detention and "12 Years a Slave" For more than four decades, the world-renowned author, activist and scholar Angela...

Activist Angela Davis Demands Justice With A Call to Action to Exonerate Ex Black Panther & Cuban Exile Assata Shakur Civil Rights Activist, Professor Angela Davis appears on Democracy Now!,  The War and peace Report. Assata Shakur is an activist...

(Originally posted on July 29, 2014; updated on July 30, 2014) Note from BW of Brazil: It would be a huge understatement to say that the 2014 Festival Latinidades was a success. The objective of this blog is to bring visibility to the black women of...

[We are not accustomed to quoting the Bible, but sometimes the biblical words have become part of common culture, as in this:  "Matthew 7:15-20, 'You Will Know Them by Their Fruits' -- 'Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but...

The actual distance between Ferguson, Missouri, and Gaza is about 6,000 miles. But last summer, the repressive and deadly violence visited upon blacks and Palestinians, respectively, made that distance seem to disappear. Immediately, lines of solidarity...