By Bill Fletcher, Jr.
I met Jack O’Dell and his wife Jane Power shortly after moving to Washington, D.C. in 1990. I had heard of him over the years and read several pieces by him. Particularly in light of Jack’s role with the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition, I was especially interested in knowing how he, as an open leftist, chose to navigate the terrain. What I was not anticipating, when I met Jack, was that it was the beginning of a friendship that would last until his final days.
By James Early
What is it about the racial constitution of Brazil that poor people of African descent would, under any circumstances, vote for a fascist?
A simple direct political question of why poor Brazilians of African descent would, under any circumstances, vote for a fascist invariably leads to extended discussion, debate and opinion. Facts and reliable statistical data do not readily yield hard answers nor automatic insight.
By Jean Lesly René
During the last two months, Haiti has been embroiled in an intense period of political upheaval, pitting an increasing number of civil society’s sectors and political parties against President Jovenel Moise, the oligarchy and other ruling forces of this U.S.-dominated satellite state.
By Bill Fletcher, Jr.
By Mohammed Elnaiem
By Udo C. Enwereuzor
Since 2014, Libya has been governed by two parallel governments – the Libyan House of Representatives based in Tobruk and supported by Gen. Haftar’s LNA and, the U.N.-backed, Government of National Accord (GNA) based in Tripoli.
By David A. Love
The Indonesian province of West Papua is, in reality, a colony, an occupied land whose indigenous people are regarded as monkeys because they are Black. This hidden colony, its land and people exploited, has been the victim of racial oppression and a slow-motion genocide that has claimed half a million lives over the course of five decades. The Melanesian people of West Papua continue to die, and their struggle for independence continues.
by Baba Aye
By Bill Fletcher, Jr.
In November 2018, I published my first novel, a murder mystery entitled The Man Who Fell From the Sky. In the years that led up to its publication, I would frequently encounter some interesting responses from friends on the Left when I mentioned that I was writing a novel. As I regularly note, the responses fell into three general categories:
When elected president of Venezuela in 1999, one of Hugo Chavez’s first major undertakings was to rewrite the country’s constitution as a mass-democratic process. Despite the optimistic and revolutionary re-visioning of the constitution, certain silences remain particularly glaring. Paramount among these is the constitution’s failure to recognize its citizens of African descent in the same or similar manner as it does its indigenous citizens.
