Chris Hedges discusses the novel ‘Cloudsplitter’ and John Brown with author Russell Banks. The painter Jacob Lawrence, in his 22-piece series ‘The Legend of John Brown’, first exhibited in 1941, chronicles in each of his panels a seminal stage in the life of the abolitionist John Brown. The first panel depicts Brown as Christ nailed to a cross, blood flowing from his nailed feet to the ground. The next scenes portray Brown as a man of exceptional religious conviction, willing to suffer financial failure and hardship in his fight for abolition. The middle compositions tell the story of Brown’s plans […]
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Above Photo: Students are seen walking on Brown University’s campus in Providence, Rhode Island on November 11, 2021. Jonathan Wiggs / The Boston Globe via Getty Images. “I did not come to Brown to study at an institution that promotes the presence of the Koch anti-science, anti-democratic ideology,” wrote one student in a recent op-ed. More than 60% of Brown University faculty members voted Tuesday to postpone a vote on the creation of a new academic center until next month, giving professors more time to assess whether administrators have adequately strengthened the institution’s gift policy to ensure that wealthy right-wing donors are not bankrolling […]
Above image: Woven Art. Guilty on All Counts! After hearing from over 30 witnesses and receiving hundreds of documents, the Panel of Jurists founds the US government and its subdivisions GUILTY of Genocide and Gross Human Rights Violations. The Executive Summary Verdict which follows is their preliminary report, with a detailed and cited ruling to appear in the near future. Introduction: The Context of Our Work and Why We are Here The fact that the United States has committed an array of human rights abuses against Black, Brown, and Indigenous Peoples should be as uncontroversial as it is incontrovertible. There is […]
Microcosms Of Mayhem & Humanity: Amidst All The Confusion, One Thing Is Clear: The City Has Done A Terrible Job On Outreach And Ensuring That Those Who Need Permanent Housing Have Access To It. Washington — “Where that McDonald’s is right now,” he says pointing across the street. “That used to be a news stand where I’d buy comics as a kid.” Dumah Muhammad stands in Adams Morgan Plaza in Washington, D.C., a light drizzle misting a small crowd of supporters and press. A few people wrangle a tarp over the PA system and there’s a tent where folks can grab snacks, […]
Netflix’s new mystery movie, Enola Holmes, showcases the full breadth of Millie Bobby Brown’s talents with one of the entertainment industry’s time-honored traditions: Letting her do battle against the lung-crushing oppression of a corset. From the moment Brown crushed a Coke can with her brain as Eleven in Stranger Things, it was obvious she was going places. But the young actress’s fascinating potential could only be revealed with time and a proper starring role. (And her feature debut, a supporting role in Godzilla: King of the Monsters, did not quite meet that mark.) Enter Enola Holmes, a delightful adventure that premiered […]
Ex-governor of South Carolina and former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley was among the star speakers on the first night of the Republican National Convention, which will last from 24 August to 27 August. President Donald Trump is set to be re-nominated as the GOP candidate for the November election. Presumably in response to the Democrats’ selection of Kamala Harris as VP candidate, Nikki Haley invoked her Indian heritage during her speech at the Republican National Convention on Monday. Claiming that America is not racist, she termed her Indian identity as an example. “This is personal for me. I am […]
Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden seemingly forgot what was made clear by his own administration when he was vice president under Obama: Evidence shows that Michael Brown was killed while assaulting a police officer. That was the conclusion of a US Department of Justice investigation in 2015, during the Obama-Biden administration, when the feds exonerated former Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson in the August 2014 shooting of 18-year-old Brown. As the Washington Post wrote weeks after the DOJ report, the “Hands up, don’t shoot” chant of protesters who demonstrated after Brown’s killing was “built on a lie.” It was based […]
Fossil Fuel Industry Pollutes Black And Brown Communities By Gin Armstrong and Derek Seidman, Eyes on the Ties. July 28, 2020 Fossil Fuel Industry Pollutes Black And Brown Communities2020-07-282020-07-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/oil-and-gas-industry-logos-from-creative-commons.jpg200px200px Above: Creative Commons Photos: Shell Gas Station (Mike Mozart); Chase (longislandwins); Chevron (Roo Reynolds); Wells Fargo (Mike Mozart); BlackRock (Thomas Hawk). While Propping Up Racist Policing. As movements for racial and environmental justice escalate across the US, these struggles – which, as groups like the National Black Environmental Justice Network point out, must be seen as one – have a common foe: the fossil fuel industry. The same companies that drive environmental racism in Black and Brown […]
Wide receiver Antonio Brown, who was released by New England Patriots after a single game last year amid allegations of sexual assault and intimidating text messages, has claimed that an NFL investigation has left him “in limbo”. Brown has been a free agent since he appeared to announce his retirement after being released by the Patriots in September, and is expected to be suspended by the NFL as a result of the ongoing investigation should he sign for another team. Despite being sentenced last month to two years’ probation after pleading no contest to a felony charge of battery and burglary following […]
A historic statue of Jesus Christ at Whitefish Mountain Resort in Montana was painted brown by a vandal last weekend. The act of vandalism is one of many cases of fire and vandalism at churches across the country over the last month, but it was only covered by two local news outlets — completely ignored by the national media. “The statue was found Monday morning with brown painted skin tones and holding flags that read ‘Rise Up’ and ‘#BLM,’ according to a photo posted to Facebook, seemingly making reference to the Black Lives Matter movement,” the Whitefish Pilot reports. “By Monday […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/0b/1079856873_0:-1:1201:675_1200x675_80_0_0_9952ac0fedb04e9208339493dbb0bed2.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/science/202007111079856861-amateur-astronomers-helped-nasa-scientists-discover-gigantic-brown-dwarfs/ NASA scientists assume that there is a hidden population of brown dwarfs, balls of gas that are too big to be called planets, but at the same time too small to be called stars, floating around our Solar system. To find them and other celestial bodies the agency has launched a project for scientists and members of the public interested in astronomy. Two unusual brown dwarfs have been detected with the help of citizen scientists, NASA said in a press release published on 10 July. The agency said the amateur astronomers led scientists to […]
How Black And Brown Workers Are Redefining Strikes By Mike Elk, Payday Report. July 9, 2020 How Black And Brown Workers Are Redefining Strikes2020-07-092020-07-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/strike-for-black-lives-matter-movement-777×437-e1594312360770.jpg200px200px Above photo: Participants gather at The One Million Man March rally at Daley Plaza in Chicago on Juneteenth, June 19, 2020. Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune. During George Floyd’s funeral on June 9th, Black dockworkers in Charleston, S.C., shut down the nation’s 4th busiest port and gathered to show their solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. “All operations stopped, the terminals were shut down, no machines were working, trucks were backed up for miles along the interstate because […]
________Byline Times100,000 People Are Dead But America Doesn’t Mourn Black and Brown Lives by CJ Werleman The United States surpassed 100,000 COVID-19 related deaths on Wednesday. The victims are not nameless. They are overwhelmingly elderly, but also predominately poor, black and Latino, which goes a long way to explaining why their deaths have imparted relatively little emotional impact on a majority of the country or, more specifically, on White America. The US is known for honouring its fallen like no other nation on earth, but the lives of 100,000 Americans have passed without notice, remembrance or even a moment of silence. […]
So I was asking Sherrod Brown about going back to work in the United States Senate last week, and he gave me the most Sherrod Brown answer you could imagine: “McConnell summons us back,” he told me. “Think about this. Forget about senators and our safety. And most of us aren’t bringing any staff in, except maybe one person, or zero. There’s the generally well-paid floor staff and some professional people. But most of them are food-service—the Republicans are going ahead with their lunch this week, apparently every day. They’re the food-service workers, mostly middle aged women of color. Then there’s […]