#Occupy

Brother Ali hasn’t always seen his work as political commentary. But ahead of his third studio album and a new political consciousness, all of that has changed when he got arrested while occupying a foreclosed home.

Colorlines.com readers talk about how immigrant rights groups and Occupy Los Angeles came together on May Day.

As spring comes, the world prepares for the Occupy movement to once again fill the headlines. Colorlines.com talks with Occupy Wall Street organizers who have sought to keep race in the movement’s conversation.

Several banks came to the negotiating table with home occupiers in West Oakland, Seattle and San Jose, according to protesters.

Protestors marched on a detention center in Birmingham, Ala., this weekend to decry the state’s new immigration enforcement law, which critics say legalizes racial profiling, among other things. Detainees came to the window with signs expressing solidarity.

Meanwhile, he’s criticized the city for closing schools and spending millions to fight Occupy protesters.

From Brooklyn to Indonesia, artists have have helped articulate a deeply personal political narrative.

Occupy Oakland organizers hope to make history again by shutting down the city: the last general strike in the U.S. was in Oakland in 1946.

This week’s chaos was the latest in at least two years of violent responses to public protest–and a long string of violence against suspects in black neighborhoods.