Jamal Rich
LATEST ARTICLES BY Jamal Rich
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Renewed calls for community control of the police come to D.C.
January 5, 2021An old idea first pioneered by the Black Panther Party is back.
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Film, communism, radical politics: A conversation between Boots Riley and Charisse Burden-Stelly
December 1, 2020Simply calling oneself an “anti-capitalist,” Boots Riley reasons, isn't enough. You've got to stake out a position when it comes to an alternative. For him, that alternative is communism.
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Can’t pay, won’t pay: Building a debtor’s union in D.C.
November 23, 2020People's World interviews Wes Vanderburgh, an organizer from the newly established D.C. Chapter of the Debt Collective.
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Poor People’s Campaign and progressive allies take fight to Mitch McConnell’s doorstep
September 23, 2020Activists brought their demands right up to McConnell's Washington and Louisville, Ky. homes with a 'Moral Monday Cavaran.'
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Free college was once the norm all over America
September 11, 2020A fightback against student debt is being led by groups like the Debt Collective that participated in a panel at the Claudia Jones School in Washington D.C.
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Black Panther veterans Denise Oliver-Velez, Ericka Huggins share experiences with new generation
September 9, 2020The two pioneers came together for an intergenerational discussion on the ideas of radical friendship, the future of movement building, and radical self-care.
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Black National Convention targets police violence, builds unity for Black liberation
September 1, 2020From our elders and ancestors, we are learning it’s possible to bring Black people together from all political ideologies and backgrounds to mobilize around a common vision for Black liberation.
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‘We Charge Genocide’ petition’s call for justice still echoes seven decades later
August 26, 2020The We Charge Genocide petition indicted the anti-Black crimes and violence of U.S. capitalism. The Claudia Jones School for Political Education and the Paul Robeson House are keeping its memory alive.
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