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The BROOKS BLACKBOARD is a digital political education platform with links to news articles, analysis and books reviews on race, politics & social changes.  See the links below to our recent posts and political education pages, INTEL and OPEN MIND.  

RECENT POSTS:

Israel Killed Reporter Abu Akleh—but US Media Disguised the Fact, words by Robin Anderson, May 23, 2022

Why did the ALU's campaign for worker rights resonate Amazon workers?, words by Charles Brooks, April 28, 2022

Abortion has been common in US since the 18th century – and debate over it started soon after, words by Prof. Treva Lindsey, May 17, 2022

As Covid Aid Languishes, Congress Moves Ahead With Massive Corporate Subsidies, words by Jake Johnson, May 12th 2022 

Elon Musk’s plans for Twitter could make its misinformation problems worse, April 11, 2022

'A Poor People's Pandemic': Poorest US Counties Suffered Twice the Covid Deaths of Richest, April 6, 2022

POPULAR POSTS:

THE STRUGGLE FOR WORKER RIGHTS IN BESSEMER CONTINUES…, words by Charles Brooks

Western Media Fall in Lockstep for Neo-Nazi Publicity Stunt in Ukraine, by John McEvoy

Black August builds on our Black Radical Tradition, words by Charles Brooks

Book Review: We Do This 'till WE FREE US, words by Charles Brooks

RETREATING FROM POLICE REFORM IN NYC:  NYC City Council pressured to weaken new anti-chokehold law, words by Charles Brooks

Teacher Activism takes on Racial and Social Justice, words by Charles Brooks

Police Reform comes to Maryland PART I, words by Charles Brooks

Police Reform comes to Maryland PART II, words by Charles Brooks

The Pandemic Crisis and what got us here (Book review), words by Charles Brooks

OLDER POSTS

'Shame on Them': DOJ Will Not Reopen Tamir Rice Case

Vaccine apartheid is prolonging COVID – not vaccine hesitancy

Archbiship Desmond Tutu, Defender of Human Rights in South Africa and beyond, words by Julia Conley, December 27, 2021

bell hooks will never leave us - she lives through the thought of her words,  words by Dr. Kaysonya Wise Whitehead, December 20, 2021

COVID misery feeds the BEAST but starves working people, words by Charles Brooks

Shameful: Millionaire Senators Vote Against Popular Minimum Wage Raise That Would Lift Millions Out of Poverty, Kenny Stancil

The Decline and Fall of American Empire, words by Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J.S. Davies

Amid Warnings of Surging Worldwide Poverty, Planet's 500 Richest People Added $1.8 Trillion to Combined Wealth in 2020, words by Julia Conley

Cori Bush Booed by House GOP for Denouncing White Supremacy, words by Kenny Stancil

Is Biden’s anti-Trump message enough to win over Black voters? words by Charles Brooks

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