Threatened with suspension, these middle schoolers refused to back down and joined the growing MO/KS student movement to denounce ICE and the proposed ICE concentration camps planned to be built in Kansas City
This story marks the first installment in “The Plunder Papers,” an ongoing investigative series by two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Jon Jeter examining why Africans continue to live in grinding poverty seven decades after the alleged close of the colonial era.
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.
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.
Politics won’t save us. The system is designed to keep us oppressed, divided, and controlled. To break free, we must reject the lies that pit us against each other and come together in radical solidarity.
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