BFL’s "Light Up the Night" campaign is underway, bringing “attention, respect, and action” to its effort to reduce violence and addiction in St. Louis.
BFL’s "Light Up the Night" campaign is underway, bringing “attention, respect, and action” to its effort of reducing violence and addiction in St. Louis.
For the first time since the COVID pandemic, college music programs in the state are opening their doors to high school and junior high band students to allow them to
The inspiration to bring out a new edition of Cedric Robinson’s classic,
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, came from the estimated 26 million people who took to the streets during the spring and summer of 2020 to protest the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and the many others who lost their lives to the police. During this time, the world bore witness to the Black radical tradition in motion, driving what was arguably the most dynamic mass rebellion against state-sanctioned violence and racial capitalism we have seen in North America since the 1960s maybe the 1860s. The boldest activists demanded that we abolish police and prisons and shift the resources funding police and prisons to housing, universal healthcare, living-wage jobs, universal basic income, green energy, and a system of restorative justice. These new abolitionists are not interested in making capitalism fairer, safer, and less racist they know this is impossible. The