“Google firmly believes that everyone deserves to see themselves equally in every room and throughout the media we consume,” said a Google Representative quoted in Variety. Black representation in movies, TV, modeling, and advertisements has been...
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land, Chelsea Green Publishing, White River Junction, Vermont, 2018, $34.95 Leah Penniman’s Farming While Black is a groundbreaking contribution to the fight for social...
Does it feel like living in a fascist state on a dying planet is a lost cause at this point? It’s a serious question I don’t have an answer to. I’d like to say “no” but no matter which party is in charge, they will continue to empower the police...
You may have recently heard about the Governor of Louisiana issuing a pardon to one Homer Plessy, an African American activist who dared challenge Jim Crow segregation in the 1890s in the Deep South. And you may have also read my previous article...
Last week, we celebrated a spectacle of historic proportions. Politicians and leading figures around the country in every state did their best to go a whole 24 hours without mentioning a racist policy they’ve endorsed or supported. And the most...
Local politics in Portland typically follows a well-worn path. The city is run by Democrats, there are some ongoing debates, a certain amount of mudslinging, and generally two sides are pitted against one another for political power: monied...
Andy O'Brien is the communications director for the Maine AFL-CIO, a statewide federation of 160 local unions representing 40,000 workers. He writes on live and labor in Maine for Maine Beacon, Working Waterfront, Mainer News, and the Free Press. ...
On Friday night, August 20, two individuals committed a hate crime against Tahmoor Khan and his family, spray painting racist graffiti on his car and destroying the family garden. Pine and Roses’ Todd Chretien spoke to Tahmoor to get his views on...
Andy O’Brien is communications director at Maine AFL-CIO. He has written extensively about far-right extremism in Maine for The Free Press and Mainer News Cooperative. This article originally appeared in The Free Press, a free weekly tabloid,...