real utopias

Excerpt from a lecture given by Slavoj Zizek at the European Graduate School Lecture in 2003, titled "Markets Without Substance".

Professor Noam Chomsky on Laura Flanders Show. He goes on record and calls the United States a “very racist society” and then slammed former presiden

When teaching African-American history in schools, the work of a historian from a century ago still resonates, writes Jeffrey Aaron Snyder.

Race, Yale, political correctness, and a nation spinning apart at Thanksgiving.

A new documentary following the rise of the Black Panthers movement is a sympathetic primer that misses much of the brutal detail

Watch and relive the story on how the Black Panthers
came to be.

Capitalism and racism are bound together. One cannot exist without the other, and so the struggle against each depends on a struggle against both.

Kathleen Neal Cleaver (May 13, 1945) is an American professor of law, known for her involvement with the Black Panther Party. Kathleen Neal was born in .

The murder of Walter Scott by North Charleston cop Michael Slager is further evidence that police violence is irresolvable without challenging the fundamental precepts by which the police exist. In a narrow sense it is encouraging that after ‘private’ video evidence of the murder was made public the North Charleston police chose to charge Mr. Slager with murder. What isn’t encouraging is that Mr. Slager’s (Black) partner who witnessed the murder apparently signed off on Mr. Slager’s account of events. Also less than encouraging is that the North Charleston police department had declared Mr. Scott’s murder justified until the video surfaced. The evidence that led to the charge of murder was ‘accidental’ as opposed to the result of an internal investigation.

We speak with two close colleagues and friends of the pioneering author, filmmaker and media reform activist Danny Schechter, who died last week of pancreatic cancer at the age of 72, and play excerpts from different points in his career.