From the notes from the black underground collection: From launching Arm the Spirit, the first revolutionary prison newspaper, to co-founding the Jericho Movement, Black Panther Party & Black Liberation Army veteran, Jalil Muntaqim details stories of resisting empire and organizing for a new world.
This week's headlines on MacKenzie Scott's donation to The Trevor Project adds yet another chapter to her story of philanthropic leadership. But have her donations to HBCUs and other colleges and organizations actually made a difference?
EssaysCommunity Movement Builders strongly condemns the United States' war of agression against the sovereign people of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. "This war is not about drugs, democracy, or human rights. It is about oil, power, and control."
Official StatementsThe holidays are a time when many people are forced to face their grief, individually and collectively. As we navigate the season, let us remember that grief should be embraced with tenderness and curiosity.
The nurse offered pills to lower his blood pressure. He chose to work out instead. In his first for Grassroots Thinking, Antoine Davis shares the physical and mental health benefits of exercise, and how he reversed high blood pressure without medication.
Prison WritersMeeting the moment: mutual aid organizing to survive and thrive during the coming economic depression.
OpinionIncarcerated writer Xandan Gulley writes about why he rejects gender-affirming care due to a change in drugs purchased by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, and how this process has led to feelings of a slow death.
Prison WritersA personal essay by teacher and writer, Steph Curry, on how capitalism shapes our family dynamics and influences our career decisions.
EssaysJournalist Katie Coss investigates the disconnect between progressive candidates, their policies, and the Black working class. Revisit our first "Death Week." Read new stories from incarcerated writers.
How is it that an organization and candidate that champions the working class lacks the presence of working-class Black supporters? Journalist Katie Coss investigates that tension.
Writer and healer, Darnell Lamont Walker, reflects on the sacred labor of death work and the radical act of being present as our people transition. Walker reminds us that Black folks deserve more than to have our last breath swallowed in a sterile room with no one to call our name.
Death WeekIncarcerated writer E. Paris Whitfield shares a story of personal connection with a fellow prisoner through literature, and how a single fashion choice left a profound impact on his life.
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