500 Years, No Pay Raise: The War on African Wages and the Economy Fighting to Break Free
They took the land, the labor, and the minerals. They left behind an economy where working 89 hours a week earns you $77 a month, and you still owe your boss a cut for hiring you. The Plunder Papers follow the money from a Nairobi father to the extraction machine the West built and never turned off.
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Before the System Believes You
For Black women and girls in Kansas City, the struggle to be found often begins with having to be believed.
Rubio’s Global War on “Anti-American” Speech Has Its First Prisoners
A cable signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio directs every U.S. embassy worldwide to suppress “anti-American propaganda” using Pentagon psyops units and recruited local influencers. Weeks earlier, the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria had already directed the country’s secret police, the DSS, to arrest two citizens over tweets critical of israel & the U.S.
23 Organizations Launch Campaign to Stop KC’s World Cup Jail Before It Opens
Kansas City wants to welcome the world. It’s building a cage to do it. But a rapidly growing movement says the fight is far from over.
Local KC Leaders Gleefully Celebrate $317M Investment in Caging Black and Brown People, Note Facility ‘Designed for Future Expansion’
Officials celebrate ‘justice with dignity’ vision for building specifically designed to strip people of both
The Company That Built Guantanamo Bay Is Now Building Kansas City’s World Cup Jail. A Coalition of 23 Organizations Are Fighting Back
The contractor building Kansas City’s World Cup jail has been sued for human trafficking, found liable for poisoning over 100,000 people, and built the detention camp where the U.S. tortured prisoners for two decades. Decarcerate KC and 24 partner organizations are launching a campaign to fight it.
🚨 Missouri’s Apartheid Redistricting: Supreme Court Upholds Trump-Ordered Racist Voter Scheme to Kill Black Kansas City’s Vote.
They used Kansas City’s most infamous apartheid line to carve up Black representation. The Supreme Court court rubber-stamped it 4-3. Get the Full briefing.
🚨 Kill the Imperialist Lies: The Truth on the U.S. War Against Iran
Your government launched an illegal war, bombed 66 schools, killed 165 schoolgirls, and is asking you to pay $200 billion for it. Here is everything Western media won’t tell you.
We Write to Wage War: The Radical Black Press As A Liberatory Technology
For 199 years, the radical Black press has been the infrastructure beneath every major turning point in Black American life. In an era of AI and social technologies, what is the role of the revolutionary Black Press today?
