In 'The Alabama Solution', Incarcerated Freedom Fighters Expose the Deadly U.S. Prison System
The film is, essentially, a smuggled piece of evidence, showing the extremely violent abuse and inhumane conditions these men face—conditions deemed "unconstitutional" by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2020, which didn't change anything for the men inside.
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"Never to Humiliation": Houston Stands Against the U.S.-Zionist Regime for Al-Quds Day
On Friday, March 13, 2026, the Houston community gathered in solidarity with oppressed people across Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, and the rest of the world for the annual Al-Quds Day, a call for Palestinian self-determination and a fervent opposition to Israel and Zionism. As the imperialist axis drags the world into another war, Houston stood as…
Arts & Soul
To Whom This May Concern: Jill Scott's Sonic Geography of Black Life
Everywhere we have ever made music, which is to say everywhere we have ever hoped to survive, lives inside this record.
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Bombing Iran: Crude Oil Gulf Extraction and Gulf South Petro-Devastation
The same logic that organizes the extraction of the Global South organizes the domestic South. The plantation did not disappear, and the Middle Passage lives on.
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