Belabored Podcast #205: Wildcat Sports Strike Wave, with Dave Zirin
The athletic strikes may have been short-lived, but they made a huge impact, disrupting the pretense of normalcy that sports entertainment normally helps viewers create.
Winter 2024
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A Reply to Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and Liam Kofi Bright
We have many battles, not one, not even one at a time; they are not necessarily connected, and it is important for reasons of tactics and strategy to recognize the differences among them.
A Response to Michael Walzer
The point of theorizing about racial capitalism is to focus our attention on the broader forms of organization that are constitutive of social life under capitalism, beyond how it organizes work and production.
A Note on Racial Capitalism
Capitalism and racism overlap sometimes, as they do today in the United States. But the overlap is circumstantial, not necessary.
Belabored Podcast #202: The Strike for Black Lives
This week workers across the country walked off the job and rallied in the streets as part of a labor mobilization to support Black Lives Matter.
The Death of Hannah Fizer
Black people suffer disproportionately from police violence. But white skin does not provide immunity.
The Occupation at City Hall
The occupation sought to challenge the priorities of a city government that would choose to cut funding for guidance counselors, park workers, teachers, and other social services while continuing to spend billions on cops.
Will MLB Confront Its Racist History?
The controversy over buildings, statues, and awards honoring racists has finally reached the baseball establishment.
Chipotle Workers Protest “Black Lives Matter Hypocrisy”
While the company boasted that it would donate $1 million to fight racism, workers argue it is perpetuating racial injustice by mistreating its many Black and Latinx workers.
Vidas Negras Importam
For younger Portuguese people, who have watched Americans take to the streets in support of Black Lives Matter, protesting police brutality feels overdue.
Street Vendors’ Long Road to Recovery
Recent policy changes in New York City promise to reduce police harassment of vendors, but they are struggling months into the pandemic.
Academia’s Theater of the Absurd
Adjunct faculty at Valencia College are campaigning for a union to advocate for fair pay, more job stability, and a greater say in how the college is run.
Introduction: Already Sick
A series of short essays on the coronavirus pandemic.
[EVENT | July 9] Dismantle Racial Capitalism
Join William P. Jones, Marcia Chatelain, K. Sabeel Rahman, and Olúfémi O. Táíwò to discuss what it means to confront racial capitalism during a pandemic and an election year.
“I Hope Our Daughters Will Not Be Punished”
From a solitary cell in Texas, Kwaneta Yatrice Harris writes letters documenting the torturous conditions, despite the risk of retribution.
