Black Liberation

5 Minutes

Culture

Trauma and damage placed alongside hope and resistance

PV July 19, 2020

Until We are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada 2019 Edited by Rodney Diverlus, Sandy Hudson and Syrus Marcus Ware University of Regina Press Review by Helen Kennedy White supremacy and colonialism...

7 Minutes

World

Black history and the vision of a socialist future

PV January 22, 2020

WEB Du Bois and the Jefferson School of Social Science Denise Lynn In May 1954, W.E.B. Du Bois wrote a memo in support of his employer, the Jefferson School of Social Science. The Jefferson...

3 Minutes

Culture

‘Watchmen’: An unblinking look at racism through the eyes of lead Black characters

PV January 22, 2020

Michael Berkowitz HBO’s Watchmen is a stunning achievement for television. It is an unblinking look at American right-wing populism and racism, through the eyes of lead Black characters in a science fiction comic book...