An unidentified man self immolated while holding a sign that said, Stop the genocide in Congo.

The site of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing in Jenin has been bulldozed and her shrine desecrated, in an unexplained early-morning operation on 26 October. A surfaced road...

Paul Kodjo’s edgy photographs of nightlife and youth culture in Ivory Coast resisted cultural norms of the 1970s. They almost disappeared forever.

The bookstore’s harm-reduction program and free store have made enemies of its neighbors and its landlord.

The strikes took place in Tal al-Sultan neighbourhood, where thousands of people are taking shelter, and came two days after the ICJ ordered Israel to halt its Rafah offensive

The action, organized by the group Writers Against the War on Gaza, represents an escalation of tactics by the paper’s critics.

"I want to think of Ordinary Notes arriving 'as a black note only for us,' but I know it will also be taken up by the white women in the graveyard."

Several historically Black colleges and universities received bomb threats in 2022. The attacks weigh heavily on everyone involved.

Tiana Reid on Tina Post’s Deadpan

is the story of the Palestinian people. It is a story of displacement and refugeehood, of imprisonment at the hands of a foreign occupier. But, most importantly, it is a story of sumud (steadfastne…

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Nearly one in 10 of America’s unionized auto workers went on strike Friday at Detroit’s three automakers.

Fred Moten is the author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (2003) and The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study with Stefano Harney (2013) as well as Hughson’…

Mask bans are ostensibly about public safety. The result would be disastrous for public health—but it goes beyond that, too.

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NOW AVAILABLE!"Scars of Bondage: A First Study of the Slave Colonial Experience of Africans in Guyana," by Tchaiko Kwayana & Eusi Kwayana. New expanded edition!This classic and groundbreaking study...

The writer shares three pool-dark poems from her new collection.

W.E.B. Du Bois, the African American sociologist and historian and a cofounder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was fond

Artforum editor David Velasco was fired after a Gaza ceasefire letter drew the ire of Bed Bath & Beyond scion Martin Eisenberg, a collector.

Gaza’s two largest hospitals are under a complete siege by Israeli forces and no longer functioning. Palestinian health officials have also accused Israel of using snipers to shoot at people inside...

The remedy for the problems the law supposedly addresses comes from creating better conditions for people to flourish and be free from the ills oppression facilitates

State propaganda has long mischaracterized and scapegoated anarchism to maintain a violent status quo

Dozens have been arrested as Israeli forces stormed Jenin and areas around Nablus.

We cannot rely on political bodies whose material interests are at odds with revolution. Power and action toward liberation must come from the people

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The following statement was developed by Samidoun NY/NJ: Gaza is a Strategy, Not Just A Place We echo the sentiment that Gaza is ‘the first experiment in considering us all disposable” …

Many young girls like to mutilate and "torture" Barbie dolls, including by popping off their heads and microwaving them, a British study suggests.

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

Grant Clemency for Incarcerated Survivor Tanya Smith!

Some rest in hallways, others under the rubble. Some have names on their wrists to identify them, others had no such luxury. Some succumb to their wounds, all to Western avarice. The health centers…

The Alchemy Lecture is a multi-vocal model that brings together a constellation of three to four thinkers and practitioners from different disciplines and geographies annually to think together and...

"I try not to get too caught up in what an article or a paragraph about me says, because there’s more to me than that."

Ashanti Alston and William C. Anderson discuss the future directions for Black anarchism and its role in the movement for Black liberation.You can help make ...

For more than fifty years, the photographer created a vivid record of the city. Now, a major archival project stands to reveal the scope of his vision.

A kangaroo that got loose near Toronto, Ontario, has now been caught, but punched a police officer in the face in the process.

Recent winners of PEN America’s Prison Writing Awards are missing a total of $925 in payments—a small fortune in prison

“How to not blow up the world, even though it sucks?,” asks artist Jordan/Martin Hell in his interview with writer and artist Hannah Black. Taking Black’s novella Tuesday Or September Or The End as a...

Repatriation efforts were stymied for decades. But the problem can no longer be stalled

Canada is trying to remove Zain Haq from the country—something that could set a dangerous precedent.