Hammer&Hope
NO. 6
Spring 2025
It’s morning again in America. Federal agents snatch students off the streets. The White House boasts of banishing hundreds of people to a Salvadoran prison. Head Start and domestic violence shelters await the chopping block. The Trump administration is repurposing antiracism into a grenade and lobbing it at the remnants of the welfare state. But regular people are providing the varied, creative, noncooperative opposition to the neo-fascist administrative takeover that we need.
White Supremacy Is Apocalyptic for Everyone
Across the world, the right wing is blowing up everything and incinerating the planet.
Between Fires in Los Angeles and Fascism in America
Altadena’s vision of regeneration is the antidote to the political conflagration that threatens us all.
America Is Demolishing Antiracism Five Years After the George Floyd Uprisings
Hammer & Hope asked Black organizers, academics, and writers to consider the state of Black politics five years after the 2020 uprisings and with the re-election of Donald Trump. Their responses, some written before Trump’s inauguration, offer ideas for where we go from here.
Momodou Taal, a Persecuted Pro-Palestine Activist at Cornell, on Black and Palestinian Solidarity
“As someone who’s from the African continent and knows what colonialism has done to the continent, I see this as a crystal-clear example.”
Why “One of Them Days” with SZA and Keke Palmer Is Such an Anomaly
The end of an era for Black Hollywood.
Who Is Geraldine Pointer?
A former political prisoner in Buffalo seeks to clear her name so she can finally "feel free."
A Spark of Hope From Scrappy Federal Workers
As federal unions engage in lengthy legal battles, the growing Federal Unionists Network has provided a fulcrum for rank-and-file members who don’t want to wait to resist.
Donald Trump and the Far-Right Insurgency in Europe
On both sides of the Atlantic, a belligerent sense of whiteness and national identity, beset by economic insecurity, is winning elections.
Creativity Is Essential to Building the Power to Defeat Fascism
I use TikTok to spread big leftist ideas. No matter what tool I use, I’m determined to channel our energy toward world-making.
Afro-Cubans and Cinema After the Revolution
Sara Gómez and other Black filmmakers challenged the colorblind vision of a newly socialist nation.
Why Is Beyoncé a Political Symbol in Brazil?
Three young Afro-Brazilian intellectuals explore how Queen Bey became an icon on the left, despite her class politics.
The Climate Movement Should Become a Human Movement
It needs to tap into our emotional life in ways that will link us to material struggles rather than distract us from them.
Witnessing the Grief and Loss of the Los Angeles Fires
After seeing the destruction of the Eaton and Palisades fires, a photographer contemplates whether her version of Los Angeles is ending.
South Africa’s Black Working Class Opposes the Land Reform Law That Led Donald Trump to Give White People Refugee Status
Grassroots organizations condemn Black elites in the African National Congress for imposing the law on poor people while ignoring their calls for communal land ownership.
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A poem.
Enslaved Africans Created Their Own World in the New World
By recovering the voices of women and recentering Brazil in the Atlantic slave trade, a new book shows how both violence and resistance were essential to the history of slavery in the Americas.
The Struggle for Food Sovereignty While Incarcerated
Prison food has become a tool of carceral control.
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