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Political Storm in Ward 8: Council member Trayon White Faces Bribery Charges Amid Community Support

Washington D.C. councilmember Trayon White was arrested for taking money, and other gifts to pressure District agencies to award contracts to businesses that provide violence interruption programs. 

THE ROUTE HOME

This poem, originally published earlier this year in Brooklyn Poets, where it was awarded poem of the week January 15th-21st, 2024. As LOM spends the next several months examining the way forward for Black struggle from the perspectives of activists, organizers, educators and more, Nyrie Benton illustrates the way it is and has been.

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A Place We Call Home: the Story of Malcolm X Academy’s Opening Day

Educator Dejay Bilal recounts the opening day of the Malcolm X Academy for Afrikan Education and the role it has played in the Oak Park neighborhood of Sacramento, CA.

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“pushing the democratic party left?”
(or Black Liberation in Class Struggle)

“Liberation movements ultimately have to be powered by the people, not something that comes from liberal democratic organizations. The most revolutionary liberation forces have their roots in socialism…”

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