Barbara Ransby Journalist Profile

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Black Feminist Reflections on Palestine Liberation

Jun 21, 2024 | forgeorganizing.org | Barbara Ransby

Barbara Ransby charts the relationship between Black feminist organizing and the movement for a Free Palestine, and provides a poem in solidarity with the people of Gaza. The right-wing Israeli government, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, has persisted unabated for nearly eight months in its military assault against the people of Gaza in clear violation of international law.
Let us remember the last time students occupied Columbia University | Omar Barghouti, Tanaquil Jones, and Barbara Ransby

May 3, 2024 | theguardian.com | Omar Barghouti |Barbara Ransby |Tanaquil Jones

As three former 1980s student leaders at Columbia University, we applaud the courage and conviction of Palestine solidarity student activists in the eye of the storm.
In Defense of Universalism

Jan 22, 2024 | dissentmagazine.org | Susie Linfield |Lauren Stokes |Barbara Ransby |Brandon M. Terry

In Defense of Universalism The squeamishness of today’s left has turned culture into the political terrain of the right. &squarf; Winter 2024 Left Is Not Wokeby Susan NeimanPolity, 2023, 160 pp. After Black Lives Matter: Policing and Anti-Capitalist Struggleby Cedric JohnsonVerso, 2023, 416 pp.
106 Years After Fannie Lou Hamer Was Born, Her Struggle for Justice Lives On

Oct 5, 2023 | truthout.org | Rebekah Barber |Kwolanne Felix |Barbara Ransby |Victoria Law

One hundred six years ago this week, Fannie Lou Hamer was born in rural Mississippi. Though she spent less than 60 years on this earth before her death in 1977, she left a legacy that will last for years to come. Many people remember Hamer for her testimony at the 1964 Democratic National Convention (DNC).
Racial Capitalism Is in Real Peril This Time

Aug 31, 2023 | inthesetimes.com | Barbara Ransby

The climate crisis is a hard one to buy your way out of. The new issue of In These Times is a special, extra-length issue devoted entirely to the subject of socialism in America today. This special issue is available now. Order your copy today. Racial capitalism is in crisis! Again, you say? Of course there are cyclical crises, but something different is going on.
Black Studies’ Impact Reaches Far Beyond College Campuses

Jul 22, 2023 | laprogressive.com | Barbara Ransby

Scholarship and intellectual communities are only viable if they are dynamic and contested spaces for critical thinking and debate. Black studies began in heated struggle. Here in Chicago, Malcolm X College was founded with a Black studies curriculum, and protests at Evanston’s Northwestern University followed suit. At the University of Illinois Chicago, then called Circle Campus, theater and speech professor Grace Holt became the founding director of Black studies in 1974.
Abortion Bans Exacerbate the US’s Existing Black Maternal Health Crisis

Jun 21, 2023 | truthout.org | Kwolanne Felix |Sharon Zhang |Eisa Nefertari Ulen |Barbara Ransby

Skip to contentSkip to footerAttacks on abortion access are also attacks on maternal health, especially for the most vulnerable. Olympic sprinting gold medalist Frentorish “Tori” Bowie had a bright future ahead of her, but at 32 years old, her life was cut short. Tori likely died of preeclampsia, according to medical reports. Her death comes amid a mortality across the country since 2021, in particular for Black women.
Police Attacked Kids With Dogs, Water Cannons in Birmingham 60 Years Ago Today

May 2, 2023 | truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Chris Walker |Ngakiya Camara |Barbara Ransby

Sixty years ago today is known as “D-Day” in Birmingham, Alabama, when thousands of children began a 10-week-long series of protests against segregation that became known as the Children’s Crusade. Hundreds were arrested. The next day, “Double D-Day,” the local head of the police, Bull Connor, ordered his white police force to begin using high-pressure fire hoses and dogs to attack the children.