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Black Lives Matter Backlash: The NYPD’s War on Protesters Intensifies
Following this Spring’s upsurge in Black Lives Matter protests, police department moves to crush all signs of dissent.
Kingsbrook Hospital Gets a Reprieve
Worker-community alliance pressures state to postpone plans to close a safety net hospital that serves East Flatbush’s predominantly Black and Caribbean community.
Racism and the COVID-19 Immunization
A good friend, a middle-aged African-American woman, asked me to comment whether African Americans should accept the COVID-19 immunization,…
For U.S.-Mexico Relations, The Real Hope Lies with Energized Social Movements
As Trump leaves office, there’s an opportunity for social movements on both sides of the U.S-Mexico border to collaborate and retool their binational relationship.
Marisel Vera’s new novel chronicles the joys and sorrows of a Puerto Rican family displaced from one U.S. colony to another.
Remembering Chairman Fred 51 Years Later
I was a high school student when Fred Hampton forged alliances with revolutionaries of all shades in Chicago. Then the police and the FBI killed him.
Why de Blasio Needs to Focus on Online Classes
While online teaching is difficult, it’s what most school families and educators want while this pandemic rages.
It’s Time to Reignite New York’s Social Housing Revolution
While we fight for federal and state support to cancel back rent, protect tenants from eviction, and make small landlords whole, we need to lay the groundwork for a future where working-class New Yorkers are never this vulnerable again.
The charismatic congresswoman could be the transformative leader her hometown needs in a moment of crisis. In the process, she could strengthen her case for a future presidential run.
WEBINAR: Biden’s Foreign Policy: Who Will be the Architects?
A panel presented by the Indypendent, Peace & Planet News, New York City Veterans For Peace, CODEPINK and Brooklyn for Peace on December 12 at 2 p.m.
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