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Articles by Ndindi Kitonga
Addressing Houselessness in California
Despite having less than 12% of the United States population, California is home to 30% of its unhoused. California also accounts for 50% of unsheltered people in the U.S., that is folks who live outdoors in parks, under overpasses, on streets, or in their vehicles. California has also seen the largest increase in its homeless population of any state from 2020-22 (6.2%).
Queerphobia in Kenya
This interview was conducted in response horrific murder of Kenyan LGBTQ activist Edwin Chiloba. We discuss the East African response to Chiloba’s murder, queerphobia in our communities, the creative organizing work of queer feminists across Kenya, and what international solidarity with queer organizers in Africa could mean.
Afghanistan: The Withdrawal a Year Out
One of the few things Donald Trump and Joe Biden agreed on was that our country’s twenty-year misadventure in Afghanistan had to end. Trump negotiated with the Taliban that US forces would withdraw in early 2021, while Taliban forces would refrain from attacking Americans in the meantime. Biden implemented that agreement, with a delay of a few months.
Black and BIPOC Movements
Two years have passed since we witnessed and participated in the George Floyd Rebellion. The righteous rage over the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor sparked the second iteration of the Black Lives Matter Movement and this time around it was more pronounced with polls estimating between 15 million and 26 million marched during the summer of 2020 making them the largest protests in U.S. history[1].
Where Now? Black Lives Matter as an Ongoing Movement
Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash The Black dimension is crucial to the total uprooting of the existing, exploitative, racist, sexist society and the creation of new, truly human foundations. — Raya Dunayevskaya Black Lives Matter and the 2020 Elections The current Black Lives Matter uprising erupted on May 26th after yet another brutal murder of a Black man at the hands of the police, Mr. George Floyd.
Race, Class, Gender, Revolution
Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash Battle of Ideas: Race, Class, Gender, and Revolution in Theory and in Practice Ours is the age that can meet the challenge of the times when we work out so new a relationship of theory to practice that the proof of the unity is in the Subject’s own self-development. Philosophy and revolution will first then liberate the innate talents of men and women who will become whole.
Black Lives Matter Uprising in Los Angeles: Working Toward a New Humanist Society
I want to start by lifting up the names of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Nina Pop, and Tony McDade, who are the recent iterations of racialized and gendered state violence here in the USA. We do this work in their honor and as people who are serious about the radical black tradition. We have always struggled against every form of dehumanization, and this particular uprising is no different.
Anti-colonialism and Humanism
This article on the differences between colonial-racist and emancipatory humanism, with a particular focus on Africa and on the writings of Frantz Fanon, is based on a presentation at a Los Angeles meeting of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization, June 2019. –Editors Anti-colonialism is understood to be both a group of historical events and a critical analysis of past and ongoing imperialisms.
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