By Joshua Frank The inner-workings and cost of the government’s militant and violent crackdown on peaceful Standing Rock protesters have been trickling in these past few months, yet it hasn’t received the headlines it all deserves. In March, MUCKROCK was provided with an unredacted look at Indiana’s Department of Homeland Security’s EMAC (Emergency Management Assistance Compact) operation at…
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Native History: AIM Occupation of Wounded Knee Begins
Robert Onco with his AK47 during the occupation of Wounded Knee, 1973. In this March 3, 1973 file photo, a U.S. flag flies upside down outside a church occupied by members of the American Indian Movement (AIM), background, on the site of the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee, S.D. AIM’s occupation of Wounded Knee triggered…
52 Years Ago Today, Malcolm X was Murdered
Malcolm X was murdered on February 21, 1965. Born Malcolm Little and later was also known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz “They think they are living in a police state, and they become hostile toward the policemen. They think that the policeman is there to be against them rather than to protect them. And these thoughts,…
The Black Panther Party and Black Anti-Fascism in the United States
Robyn C. Spencer Fascism has been thrust into the mainstream political vocabulary of the United States since the election of President Donald Trump on a platform grounded in xenophobia, corporate dominance and right wing white nationalism. After the election, search engines and online dictionaries reported a dramatic increase in users seeking to define the term. News…
Stokely Carmichael, Black Power and the Age of Political Repression
Abayomi Azikiwe Martin Luther King Jr., shown here with Stokely Carmichael during a voter registration march in Mississippi in 1966, regarded the younger Carmichael as one of the civil rights movement’s most promising leaders. Why Did America’s Ruling Elites Declare War on the Black Movement? Author’s Note: Stokely Carmichael (1941-1998) changed his name to Kwame…
What’s Drawing Somali-American Teens to Foreign Militant Groups?
Issa Mansaray Istar Abdi, right, a member of the Minneapolis Somali community, right, shakes hands with U.S. Attorney B.Todd Jones, left, after a federal jury in Minneapolis on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 convicted Mahamud Said Omar on all five terrorism-related charges of helping send young men through a terrorist pipeline from Minnesota to Somalia. Abdi…
