On April 27, 1992, my mother had to make probably one of the most difficult decisions in her life---take my grandmother off life-support. I was...
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This 20th year since the riots or civil unrest if you prefer jumped off that day on April 29 after the not guilty verdicts
When the verdict on the Rodney King trial was announced on April 29, 1992, I was 6 years old. My family lived in a neighborhood…
It’s funny that I remember the L.A. riots clearly, but I don’t remember them when they happened in April 1992…not at all. I was in…
Asking me for the title of my favourite book is like asking a moth for its favourite flame. The fascination seems the same to me,…
We have been fighting to get something started in Britain, we’ve been looking to the Arabs (in a remarkable and much appreciated change in point…
Recently I did a presentation to the staff of the Western Center on Law and Poverty about the search for the narrative. The idea being…
Guest blogger Tony Roshan Samara is associate professor of sociology at George Mason University and a resource ally with the Right to the City alliance….
The following video consists of a 2011 online presentation by Miriam Torres of the Environmental Justice Coalition for Water, which helps local groups build a…
Below are three very different dipatches from friends in London about what’s going on in the streets and in the media: DEPTFORD UNITED, a Lewisham…
Today is the premier of the movie The Help, which places African American domestic workers at the center of a major motion picture – a…
Is the lack of recreational space making us fatter? Probably. (Among other things) Americans are getting fatter every day. I’m sure there’s a statistic out…
Estate by Fugitive Images, Paul Hallam, Victor Buchli, Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Lasse Johansson, Tristan Fennell Paperback, 152 pages Published September 24th 2010 Please buy direct…
This is how much the developed countries spent per capita on healthcare a few years ago, contrasted with average life-expectancy: This is what privatisation with…
I’m walking down Calle Carabobo (translation: silly-face street) in Medellin. It’s a place where volume matters. It matters to the street vendors –– the “llamada”…
There is a longstanding debate regarding the role of white folks in the struggle for racial and economic justice. Should they be part of strategic…
Winston Churchill once said that history is written by the victors. For centuries, the histories of Africa and Latin America were told via the pens…
It is close to two months now since I lost my father. Just writing those words, acknowledging the finality of them, is an enormous and dreadful…
Prisons provide different things to different people. For some, they ensure a far-away place to send people who have done harm to someone you love….
Flickr-Fibonacci Blue As an increasing number of noxious anti-immigrant laws are adopted in the US; as Europe debates border closures; and as the effective elimination…