Jamal Rich
LATEST ARTICLES BY Jamal Rich
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U.S.
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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Opinion
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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U.S.
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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U.S.
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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U.S.
‘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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Politics
Radical historian challenges traditional Marxist view of ‘so-called’ American Revolution
August 11, 2020Marxists ranging from Lenin to Ho Chi Minh to CPUSA historian Herbert Aptheker have viewed the American Revolution as a bourgeois-democratic revolution that advanced the cause of liberty, as incomplete and flawed as it was. Gerald Horne says no.
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U.S.
‘Cancel the Rent’—Tenants pressure D.C. city council and corporate landlords
August 10, 2020Thousands of residents in the nation’s capital are on the brink of eviction.
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U.S.
The right to be radical: Uplifting the life of Claudia Jones
July 13, 2020Over 300 attendees from around the world attended the event, including scholars and activists from Kenya, Toronto, London, Brazil, the Caribbean, and the United States.
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