Tag: racism

Historic Radical Organization Relaunches to Fight Police Oppression
Posted in News

Historic Radical Organization Relaunches to Fight Police Oppression

Jacqueline Luqman talks to Max Rameau about the relaunch of the National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression, and the start of a national effort to advocate for community control over the police. Director/Video Editor:…

Continue Reading
Anti-Defamation League Report on White Supremacy Ignores Trump’s Role in Racism
Posted in News

Anti-Defamation League Report on White Supremacy Ignores Trump’s Role in Racism

The new ADL report highlights a 120% increase in white supremacist incidents in 2019 over the last year, but ignores the roots of this rise and doesn’t tackle racism. Subscribe to our page and support…

Continue Reading
Coronavirus: Is the Climate Plague Here?
Posted in News

Coronavirus: Is the Climate Plague Here?

Journalists Bryn Nelson and Jane C. Hu talk about how the climate crisis means we could see more deadly outbreaks, plus the rise of xenophobia as the virus spreads. Producer: Steve Horn Director/Video Editor: Adam…

Continue Reading
Thinking Outside the Box: Do More Humane Prisons Exist?
Posted in News

Thinking Outside the Box: Do More Humane Prisons Exist?

Two experts discuss how we can end mass incarceration by building infrastructure that addresses its root causes. Director/Video Editor: Cameron Granadino Audio Engineer: Taylor Hebden Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate….

Continue Reading
Lessons From Super Tuesday: Stop Ignoring Black Voters of Faith!
Posted in News

Lessons From Super Tuesday: Stop Ignoring Black Voters of Faith!

Super Tuesday stunned progressives, but sustained grassroots organizing in Southern Black communities might have produced better results. Progressive outreach has made the mistakes of avoiding people of faith and ignoring race for years. Producer: Jacqueline…

Continue Reading
COVID-19 Pandemic Illuminates Anti-Chinese Racism And Xenophobia
Posted in News

COVID-19 Pandemic Illuminates Anti-Chinese Racism And Xenophobia

Eddie Conway talks with professor Dylan Rodriguez about how COVID-19 has exposed anti-Chinese sentiment, how it’s inseparable from anti-immigrant, anti-Black, and colonial violence, and how radical movements must include collective care to survive. Director/Video Editor:…

Continue Reading
Who Would Really Be Sacrificed To Save The Economy From COVID-19?
Posted in News

Who Would Really Be Sacrificed To Save The Economy From COVID-19?

Whose families do the high priests of capitalism really intend to sacrifice to their god of money? Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This video content is intended for…

Continue Reading
Surviving The Coronapocalypse
Posted in News

Surviving The Coronapocalypse

How apartheid and redlining are fueling the global COVID-19 pandemic and how people can fight back. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This video content is intended for educational…

Continue Reading
How Historical Trauma And Structural Inequality Help Spread COVID-19
Posted in News

How Historical Trauma And Structural Inequality Help Spread COVID-19

Historical and generational trauma affect Black and other marginalized communities, and ongoing inequality is making the coronavirus pandemic worse among those groups. Director: Cameron Granadino Chase Producer: Genevieve Montinar Subscribe to our page and support…

Continue Reading
‘Students Have Fallen Off The Face Of The Planet’
Posted in News

‘Students Have Fallen Off The Face Of The Planet’

Remote learning has created huge barriers to learning for low income communities of color, where four in ten families lack high speed internet access. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. **…

Continue Reading
What Impact Has Coronavirus Had On Policing?
Posted in News

What Impact Has Coronavirus Had On Policing?

Racial bias in policing has always existed, with tragic results for some. But has the coronavirus had an impact, or has it merely exposed just how deeply biased policing always was? Subscribe to our page…

Continue Reading
Police Repression Backfires As Protests Multiply
Posted in News

Police Repression Backfires As Protests Multiply

Professor Lester Spence argues America is facing two pandemics: COVID-19 and political policing. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This video content is intended for educational and informational purposes…

Continue Reading
Social Justice Is The Way To End Riots
Posted in News

Social Justice Is The Way To End Riots

Eddie Conway talks with Jacqueline Luqman about the myths surrounding peaceful protests, uprisings, economic oppression and capitalism, valuing property over people, and the country’s founding on violence. Subscribe to our page and support our work…

Continue Reading
The Harper’s Letter Is Really A Case Against Open Debate
Posted in News

The Harper’s Letter Is Really A Case Against Open Debate

Cultural and intellectual elites are trying to save themselves from accountability, not protect your free speech. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This video content is intended for educational…

Continue Reading
Tearing Down White Supremacist Monuments Isn’t Empty Symbolism
Posted in News

Tearing Down White Supremacist Monuments Isn’t Empty Symbolism

The monuments represent more than just the people they honor. They symbolize the brutal legacy of white supremacy, racism, colonialism, and genocide we live with today. Director/Video Editor: Taylor Hebden Visual Producer: Andrew Corkery Chase…

Continue Reading
Why Disbanding Plainclothes Police Units Isn’t Enough
Posted in News

Why Disbanding Plainclothes Police Units Isn’t Enough

There’s reason to be skeptical of the NYPD’s claim it disbanded its notorious plainclothes units, says Brandon Soderberg, author of the upcoming book I Got A Monster: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Corrupt…

Continue Reading
How an entire Black community was poisoned
Posted in News

How an entire Black community was poisoned

What does ‘environmental racism’ mean? What does it look like in practice? When researchers discovered that residents of the small, unincorporated, predominantly Black community of Tallevast, Florida, were experiencing abnormally high rates of cancer and…

Continue Reading
Seeing (and fighting) fascism beyond twentieth-century Europe
Posted in News

Seeing (and fighting) fascism beyond twentieth-century Europe

The “F” word has been thrown around a lot in the age of Donald Trump. From President Trump’s “Muslim ban,” to bipartisan support for migrant-filled concentration camps, to the failed insurrection at the Capitol building…

Continue Reading
Why US prisons don’t want prisoners to read
Posted in News

Why US prisons don’t want prisoners to read

In a recent piece for Protean magazine entitled “The American Prison System’s War on Reading,” Alex Skopic writes, “Across the United States, the agencies responsible for mass imprisonment are trying to severely limit incarcerated people’s…

Continue Reading
Adolph Reed Jr. on race reductionism and liberational politics
Posted in News

Adolph Reed Jr. on race reductionism and liberational politics

“There is no doubt that racism is real and has negative consequences for people’s lives,” Adolph Reed Jr. and Touré F. Reed note in the abstract to their article “The Evolution of ‘Race’ and Racial…

Continue Reading
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: “The US has never been ‘a nation of immigrants’”
Posted in News

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: “The US has never been ‘a nation of immigrants’”

In her latest book, Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion, world-renowned scholar and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz writes, “The United States has never been ‘a nation…

Continue Reading