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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.
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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.
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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. ▪ 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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Apr 14, 2023 | 
portside.org | Barbara Ransby
Brandon Johnson’s victory in the Chicago mayoral race last week is a major victory for the education justice movement, the 21st-century Black freedom movement, and the left in general. Johnson is a former teacher and Chicago Teacher’s Union (CTU) leader, a protégé of a legendary union president, the late Karen Lewis. One of 10 children from a Black working-class family that struggled to make ends meet, Johnson comes out of social movements more than from the Democratic Party.
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Apr 2, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Anna Rebrii |Frieda Afary |Barbara Ransby |Sharon Zhang
“Woman, life, freedom” — the iconic slogan of Iran’s women’s revolution — has traveled far and wide. First chanted by Kurdish women on March 8, 2006, on the streets of Turkey, it came out of the Kurdish freedom movement’s longstanding feminist commitment. The rallying cry then spilled over across the border into Syria to accompany the Kurdish women’s heroic fight against ISIS (also known as Daesh).
