Left of Black host Dr. Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by Dr. Fred Moten, a poet and a scholar, and a Professor in the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Dr. Neal teaches Black Popular Culture in the Department of African and African-American ... Read more
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, storied prison abolitionist, discusses COVID-19, racial capitalism, and decarceration and the case for prison abolition.
In this excerpt from the film “The Black Power Mixtape 1967 – 1975”, Angela Y. Davis discusses the Black Panther Party, her incarceration, and racial tension in California between Black people and the state.
Need help understanding the confusing world of gender? The Advocate is here with a primer with Jessie Gender to explain the difference between sex and gender?
Critical Resistance presents “Breaking Down the Prison Industrial Complex,” a series of videos as part of our Profiles in Abolition initiative. The videos in the series explore the current state of the prison industrial complex (PIC) and how people are fighting back to resist and abolish it. As always, we feature abolition as a strategy ... Read more
This video shows one full class recording from Dr. West’s course examining the philosophical history of W.E.B. DuBois, the towering Black scholar and great freedom fighter of the 20th Century. The course engages in close readings of Du Bois’ classic work, “The Souls of Black Folk” (1903) as well as subsequent essays in his magisterial ... Read more
Mountaintop removal is a type of surface coal mining practiced in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee in which explosives are used to expose underlying coal seams. It is an extremely destructive form of mining that is destroying the landscape of Appalachia as well as causing health hazards for the people living there. Research investigator ... Read more
“Human activities are driving up the Earth’s temperature and fundamentally changing the world around us.” Climate Change, also called global warming, is a result of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) building up in our atmosphere. Just like a greenhouse, all the GHGs make up a barrier which lets the sun’s light in but prevents heat from escaping. ... Read more
“Physical and mental health are equal and should be treated as such.” Hailey Hardcastle established a network of student activists in order to make schools a better place for students struggling with mental health. In this TED Talk, Hailey explains why schools should offer mental health days to students in the same way they excuse ... Read more
The higher education system is failing millions of potential students. For various reasons, higher education stopped being accessible for many students. Universities are expensive and cost-prohibitive for many individuals. Additionally, cultural barriers in many parts of the world prevent potential students from accessing higher education. Equally problematic, are the limitations of traditional Universities themselves. UNESCO ... Read more