More than two weeks after the assassination of Marielle Franco, an Afro-Brazilian politician who had staunchly advocated against police violence, grim details have emerged around her death.
Angela Davis, the academic, womanist, activist and freedom fighter who has been part of the quest for black liberation and dignity for more than 50 years, has decided to give her personal effects to Harvard.
James Baldwin is unequivocally one of the most prolific writers of his time.
Singer-actress Janelle MonĆ”e said a prayer with her fellow performers before taking the stage to raucous cheers at Saturdayās Womenās March, which drew a gargantuan crowd that packed the National Mall from the streets east of the U.S. Capitol all the way west past 17th Street.
Acclaimed filmmaker Ava DuVernayās documentary 13th was released on Netflix last week. Masterfully produced and directed by DuVernay, it is a poignant documentary detailing white Americaās continual, desperate and ever-changing attempts to maintain racial and legal domination over black people.
White fear exists. It has been manufactured, encouraged and proliferated through the centuries. From it spawned a damning system based on inequality: the prison-industrial complex.
Previously onĀ The Root, we reported on scholar and freedom fighter Angela Davis' recent comments aboutĀ theĀ 2016 presidential electionāand the ensuingĀ social media controversyĀ that followed.
There have been intense, widespread and polarizingĀ responses to my articleĀ on aĀ statement made by scholar, freedom fighter, former political prisoner and icon Angela Davis during her Sept. 30 keynote address at the āBlack Matters:Ā The Futures of Black Scholarship and Activismā conferenceĀ at the University of Texas atā¦
Angela Davisāscholar, freedom fighter, former political prisoner, icon and my personal heroātold attendees at the "Black Matters:Ā The Futures of Black Scholarship and Activism"Ā conferenceĀ at the University of Texas at Austin that she is not so ānarcissisticā to say that she wonāt vote for Hillary Clinton.
