n Africa, liberal democracy appears as it comes, presenting a standoff between the opposition and governments that has resulted in demonstrations, attendant deaths, and diminishing fortunes of the working class. . . .
Neo-Colonialism
BAP Demands an Investigation into US Involvement in Haitian Assassination
The Haiti/Americas Team of the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) and BAP member organization, MOLEGHAF, request the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) launch a serious and in-depth investigation into the assassination of former Haitian de facto President Jovenel Moïse. We demand to know the truth concerning U.S. and other foreign countries’ complicity in plotting to kill Moïse, as well as to assassinate activists and ordinary Haitian citizens. The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) recently published information based on newly obtained evidence from the ongoing U.S. prosecution of the alleged assassins. It reveals the seeming complicity of foreign embassies . . .
Welcome to The Red Crescent Collection
The Red Crescent Collection is a compilation of essays that emphasize the importance of justice and knowledge in Islam. . . .
Children Have Rights: A Decolonial Islamic Perspective
Islam emphasizes the importance of culture, with the responsibility of caring for an orphan as one of the State’s. Orphans have the right to a life in the societies from which they are from. . . .
The Imperative of Political Education in a Miseducated Society
Introduction Education is under attack. Book bans and ahistorical curriculum adjustments have been sweeping the nation yet again, ranging from demonizing queer folks and literature to parroting watered-down (at best) recollections of chattel slavery and other historical travesties. The upheaval over “critical race theory” being supposedly taught in K-12 schools has been the trojan horse overshadowing the erosion of the few inclusive, diverse, and critical perspectives in public education curriculum. Experienced teachers are being pushed out of the profession by unlivable wages and unrealistic expectations of how to support students’ learning, lending towards the admitted right-wing goal of defunding and . . .
Decolonizing Wakanda
Wakanda Forever presents Afrofuturism as Black and Indigenous superpowers fighting each other, and that narrative is inherently anti-Black. . . .
The Tragedy of the White Man’s World
“There’s no need to front / There’s no need to pretend / The white man’s world / Is coming to an end” . . .
Uganda Homosexuality Law Hides Behind Crimes of Empire
Uganda’s anti-homosexuality legislation has elicited worldwide condemnation. But the nation’s history with the US is rarely discussed. . . .