Jamal Rich
LATEST ARTICLES BY Jamal Rich
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News
Major court victory against desecration of Bethesda’s Moses African Cemetery
October 26, 2021The cemetery is among the largest mass graves in the United States, but real estate developers have been eyeing the site for years.
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Politics
Howard University sit-in: A struggle for democracy at an HBCU
October 14, 2021Unhealthy dormitories and an undemocratic administration have brought Howard University students out in protest.
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Mundo Popular
Portugal 2021 Avante! Festival
September 9, 2021El evento lleva el nombre y patrocinado por el periódico del Partido Comunista Portugués — ¡Avante!, que fue fundamental para derrocar la dictadura fascista de António Salazar en 1974.
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Culture
Ain’t no party like a Communist Party: Portugal’s Avante! Festival
September 9, 2021People packed the Lisbon suburb of Amora this weekend for the 45th Avante! Festival—a cultural, musical, and political extravaganza that is a highlight of summer in Portugal.
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U.S.
Private police harass residents at Brookland Manor community event in D.C.
May 25, 2021Property management brings in private cops and city police to charge residents of trespassing in their own front yard.
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News
Solidarity rallies call for end to U.S.-backed dictatorship in Haiti
March 3, 2021The Black Alliance for Peace is demanding the Biden administration withdraw support for a Haitian dictator refusing to leave office.
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U.S.
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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Politics
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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