Devyn Springer

Hood Communist • 5th May 2023

Lessons From Safiya Bukhari: Islam and Revolution are Complementary

Bukhari’s autobiography, “The War Before,” chronicles her journey as a revolutionary, and has become an important resource for those interested in exploring the intersection of revolutionary activism, dedicated organizing, and principled struggle....

Grassroots Thinking • 31st July 2022

African Power & Politics In Cuba’s La Marina Neighborhood

In that moment, I understood the struggles of La Marina and Black Cubans to be radically different from our struggle in the US, yet still deeply connected as examples of what to strive for. There, they are guaranteed basic rights within a system that...

Hood Communist • 28th July 2022

TikTok, Fascist Mythmaking, And 'Comedy Journalists'

Notice they don’t like to say the word “algorithm” themselves too often. So my question is, why the fuck is the algorithm showing me this random ass trump-adjacent, cracker content? And also, who’s paying for these white kids to go around...

In These Times • 20th May 2022

HBO's DMZ Fails to Invent a Truly Revolutionary Society

In the center of downtown Atlanta, footsteps from the city’s busiest business district is the site of one of its most popular blocks for film production, and also a tent city. In July 2021, Atlanta police forcibly removed members of the Atlanta...

Butter.ATL • 1st December 2021

James Baldwin’s Enduring Relevance To Atlanta

In 1979 Walter Lowe, Jr, the first Black editor at Playboy, called his literary hero James Baldwin in France to convince him to cover something that had began to capture the American public’s attention: the Atlanta Child Murders. As the story goes,...

Butter.ATL • 19th November 2021

Why Remembering ATL's Native American History Is So Important

The area that would eventually become the Atlanta we know and love, situated beside the Chattahoochee River, was originally inhabited by the Creek and Cherokee Native tribes. The space where Peachtree Creek — one of Atlanta’s major tributaries — flows...

Protean Magazine • 3rd November 2020

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The Independent • 1st June 2020

Killer Mike, T.I. and Atlanta's Black Misleadership Class

The entire spectacle was a mishmash of scolding, empty political sloganeering, tone-deaf pleads for “peace” in response to systemic state violence, and the treachery of the Black misleadership class. In his 2018 article, Black Agenda Report executive...

Shadowproof • 12th May 2020

Street Medics See Cuba As A Model For COVID-19 Response In Vulnerable Communities

Prevention is key to the successes of Cuba’s free and universal healthcare system, which is a direct result of the revolution’s progress. Some of their health achievements include one of the highest doctor-patient ratios in the world, a higher life...

Wear Your Voice • 21st February 2020

George Washington Carver: Touching Infinity

Cursory research into the life of Carver reveals a sort of apolitical figure, someone who cared about peanuts and plants and little more. This could not be further from the truth.

The Independent • 5th December 2019

If you think calling Kamala Harris a cop was racist, you need to talk to black feminists

To be certain, Kamala Harris faces obstacles of oppression and perception as a black woman; few would argue against this. At the same time, however — to put it into her own words — Kamala is California’s “top cop.” As the 32nd Attorney General of...

Wear Your Voice • 22nd November 2019

A Primer On Bolivia’s US-Backed Coup

“I am resigning just so that my sisters and brothers, leaders and authorities of the movement towards socialism, are not harassed, persecuted, and threatened,” Evo Morales, the democratically elected president of Bolivia, told the world in his somber...

Academia • 12th November 2019

Groundings: A Revolutionary Pan-African Pedagogy for Guerilla Intellectuals

Walter Rodney’s utilization and subsequent coining of the “groundings” pedagogical model, along with his conceptualization of the "guerilla intellectual", are among the most potent manifestations of a (Black) critical pedagogy or educational praxis...

Mondoweiss • 30th September 2019

The illusion of electoral politics from Palestine to Black America

Electoral politics are asked to carry that which they cannot hold; or possibly more aptly, electoral politics are made to be the face of a change which they’ve never known. As the elections in Israel and the possible ousting of Benjamin Netanyahu as...

Mondoweiss • 28th August 2019

A look at Washington DC’s Museum of the Palestinian People

A feeling of family welcomes you when you walk into the Museum of the Palestinian People in Washington DC. Conversations flow, anecdotes and oral histories echo all around. Walls covered with pictures show faces and legacies that invite...

PAPER Magazine • 9th January 2019

The Violent Implications of Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Shows

Despite the shallow gimmick of the film's interactive style, Bandersnatch raises for me a number of pressing social and political questions. Important in analyzing any film is paying close attention to the way violence is framed — the way the director...

Truthout • 25th October 2018

DeRay Mckesson's Misguided Case for Hope

There are two histories which have always battled each other, publicly and loudly: domination’s history—the history of the class in position to dominate the masses—and the people’s history, which is the history of colonized and oppressed peoples...

RaceBaitR • 24th July 2018

What 'Sorry To Bother You' Says About Violence And Capitalism

Sorry To Bother You illustrates the anxiousness of our dispossessed future, painting with vivid colors an absurd, afro-surrealist, and sporadically sci-fi picture of that vampiric falling empire Bob Marley sung about.

Mondoweiss • 20th April 2018

The symbol of political prisoners resonates beyond borders

Among all movements of oppressed people, but particularly those of Black and Palestinian people, political prisoners become the face and embodiment of this unjust carcerality, recognizable figures from Angela Davis’ afro to Ahed Tamimi’s smile. We...

Workers World • 10th April 2018

How I remember Winnie Madikizela Mandela

News broke on April 2 that Winnie Madikizela Mandela, revolutionary South African anti-apartheid activist, died at age 81. Also known by her birth name, Zanyiwe Madikizela, Winnie played a key role in the struggle against the brutal apartheid regime...