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Black Struggle

How to Get Away With Murder: Another Cop Kills and is Set Free in St Louis

A former police officer is acquitted in the 2011 killing of Anthony Lamar Smith, a Black man. Thousands took to the streets in St. Louis.

Eric R.

September 17, 2017

Black Panther Elders Demand an Answer: Where is Santiago Maldonado?

At this month’s Panther Breakfast, Black Panther Alumni Committee voted to support the campaign to demand the return of Santiago Maldonado.

Left Voice

September 16, 2017

St. Louis Protests Against Police Impunity

Protests erupt in St Louis after the acquittal of Jason Stockley, a former cop charged with first-degree murder of unarmed Black man Anthony Lamar Smith in 2011.

Left Voice

September 16, 2017

The Intersections of Anti Blackness and Anti Communism

Left Voice presents an interview with Charisse Burden Stelly, professor of Africana studies on Black Radical politics.

Left Voice

August 1, 2017

Assata Shakur, Always Welcome

The legacies of Assata Shakur and the Black Liberation Army are revisited in university and city struggles to overthrow racial capitalism.

Conor Tomás Reed

July 11, 2017

The Thought of Walter Rodney: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Why are African countries “underdeveloped”? And how did the imperialist plunder of the continent begin? Was slavery a product of racism?

Kofi Shakur

June 7, 2017

Cops Hold Black Children at Gunpoint

For 10 minutes, cops pointed guns at 12-14 years old Black boys who lay on the ground, sobbing and begging for their lives.

Left Voice

April 25, 2017

New Subcontracting Law Threatens Black Women

The Brazilian government recently voted to expand subcontracting, a policy that will disproportionately affect Black women.

Victor Mariutti

April 10, 2017

What We Can Learn from MLK’s Poor People’s Campaign

Towards the end of his life and career, Dr. Martin Luther King proposed the idea of assembling a ‘multiracial army of the poor’ as part of his Poor People's Campaign. At a time when the political arena is as divisive as ever, there is much to be gained from revisiting the tenets of King's push for a 'radical restructuring of wealth and power.'

Lily Cichanowicz

February 13, 2017