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Kansas City Lights the Fuse: 1,000-Plus Flood the Streets, Demand KC Shut Down ICE, and Declare a Hot Summer
With scarcely a day’s notice, two separate marches smashed together downtown, blooming into a thousand-strong, multiracial roar that blasted Nipsey Hussle’s “F*** Donald Trump” and vowed to keep the heat on ICE—and every system that props it up—all summer long.
The Empire Trembles: What L.A.’s Uprising Means for Kansas City’s Future
Marines, National Guard soldiers, ICE raids and disinformation blitzes. Why the battle for L.A. is a fight for Kansas City’s future... and yes Black people too.
We Lost the Vote. But We Will Win the World.
This essay from The Defender’s Executive Editor mourns the passage of the human caging facility tax while offering a radical, abolitionist vision of what comes next. Drawing from the Black prophetic tradition, it exposes the jail as a parasite — and imagines a future we are already building.
Kansas City Lights the Fuse: 1,000-Plus Flood the Streets, Demand KC Shut Down ICE, and Declare a Hot Summer
With scarcely a day’s notice, two separate marches smashed together downtown, blooming into a thousand-strong, multiracial roar that blasted Nipsey Hussle’s “F*** Donald Trump” and vowed to keep the heat on ICE—and every system that props it up—all summer long.
The Empire Trembles: What L.A.’s Uprising Means for Kansas City’s Future
Marines, National Guard soldiers, ICE raids and disinformation blitzes. Why the battle for L.A. is a fight for Kansas City’s future... and yes Black people too.
We Lost the Vote. But We Will Win the World.
This essay from The Defender’s Executive Editor mourns the passage of the human caging facility tax while offering a radical, abolitionist vision of what comes next. Drawing from the Black prophetic tradition, it exposes the jail as a parasite — and imagines a future we are already building.
