We are not in the streets solely for George Floyd. We endure a myriad of systemic oppressions, many of which come through state-sanctioned violence. We are resisting a system of repression. A history of military occupation in our neighborhoods. A long tradition of whyte terrorism against Black folks on this continent specifically. At the very…
In “Solidarity Is Not a Market Exchange,” an interview with Robin D. G. Kelley conducted by Jack Amariglio and Lucas Wilson, Kelley pays tribute to Lessons from the Damned: Class Struggle in the Black Community, a fugitive book from the 1970s: Lessons from the Damned is this book that is black feminist practice laid out. In…
What is a friendship? Is it two people that hang around each other or talk to each other every day, or just two people that party together? No—a friendship is a bond you make with someone. A bond you can’t break. A bond so strong that no matter what happens it won’t break. But when…
Conducted March 2009 by José Antonio Gutiérrez Dantón and lightly edited by Black Ink. Drawing of Ashanti Alston by Juna. How and why did the idea of Anarchist People of Color (APOC) come about? In the US the anarchist movement—I would say since the ’90s—grew a lot and a lot of people wanted to know…
[Originally published February 26, 1989 as a pamphlet by Midnight Notes] To the memory of Carl Wittman Well, well, well. Happy Birth Day, ACT UP, and Many Happy Returns of the Day! The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power has just begun to flex its muscles. We are all beginning to feel better in the reflection…
I was born in Lumberton even though my mother and my father and my sister were living in Norfolk, Virginia at the time, but my grandmother who lived in Lumberton got sick, so my mother went to Lumberton to see about my grandmother and I was born while she was there. A midwife delivered me.…
February 2020–February 2021, Black With Plants will publish Q&A’s on generating socioecological value in landscapes of exclusion, and on instituting—in historically emarginated environs—networks of decentralized survival programs rooted in African Diaspora agrarian and liberation strategies. Black folx (artists, Earth workers, plant-based healers, emerging revolutionaries) from across the thirteen hardiness zones in the United States—a global…
February 2020–February 2021, Black With Plants will publish Q&A’s on generating socioecological value in landscapes of exclusion, and on instituting—in historically emarginated environs—networks of decentralized survival programs rooted in African Diaspora agrarian and liberation strategies. Black folx (artists, Earth workers, plant-based healers, emerging revolutionaries) from across the thirteen hardiness zones in the United States—a global…
I remember when, a few years ago, friends in Ypsilanti, who are Nigerian, told me they were thinking of moving to Saline. “Please don’t,” I said, and I told them how I’d just been regaled by stories from an elderly friend who used to work at the Ford plant there, about how there was an…
This is my speech to all my people in the fight, so sit back and listen. I say to the people all around the world, fighting against slavery, fighting against racism, fighting against the system, I say to you, don’t get tired. Keep fighting. Be strong, because one thing about us is we are stronger…
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