• William Shoki

Where can the left look to inspiration in the wake of defeat? Our first letter from our new deputy editor.

• Jeanine Heriveaux
• Lisane Basquiat

A new exhibit of Jean-Michel Basquiat's life and work explores the influences of his family and the African world on his visual sensibilities and identity.

• Noah Tsika

'Neptune Frost,' written and co-directed by Saul Williams, knows that extraction is everyone’s problem.

• Pablo Pyrluka

The challenge presented by Argentina: What is the best way to deal with global fiscal pressures in a local context of high expectations and public demands?

• Sabrina Fernandes

Lula's challenge in Brazil: To be successful with proposed reforms, he’d need to take back the anti-systemic appeal stolen by the far-right.

• Edwin F. Ackerman

Mexico’s president has a mandate for radical change, but this change must be negotiated within a context of limits produced by the neoliberal period itself.

• René Rojas

While Chileans have defeated the post-authoritarian neoliberal regime, they face major obstacles on the road to a post-neoliberal social democracy.

• Hilary Goodfriend

Xiomara Castro’s leftist government must create capacity for self-determination in a state vulnerable to US pressure and constructed to serve monopoly capital.

• Camila Osorio Avendano

The left's win in Colombia signals that after more than six decades of war, people just want to live with dignity and in peace.

• Matt Swagler

The film 'Congo Oyé,' pulled from the archives of a New York City library a decade ago, explores different interpretations of revolution, Black sovereignty and liberation.

• Lilly Havstad

The harrowing execution of Patrick Lyoya, a Congolese refugee in Michigan, and the unfulfilled promise of resettlement in America.

• Bruce Baigrie

Mexico is fighting to regain sovereignty over its energy future, and African Leftists would do well to look to it for some answers.

• Youcef Oussama Bounab

A photo essay on Masjid Tajul Huda, a mostly West African mosque in the Bronx, New York.

• Jonneke Koomen

'We Slaves of Suriname' (1934) was the first study of Dutch colonial rule from the perspectives of the people who resisted it. It is has been published in English for the first time.

• Boima Tucker

On this month's AIAC Radio, Boima celebrates all things basketball, looking at its historical relationships with music and race, then focusing on Africa's biggest names in the sport.

• Yunxiang Gao

Yunxiang Gao’s new book takes a fresh look at connected lives of African American and Chinese leftist activists, artists and intellectuals after World War II.

• David Tonghou Ngong

Why would African Christians in the West, discriminated against in Europe and the United States, embrace views that marginalize not only others but also themselves?

• Hisham Aïdi

Why did North Africans and Middle Easterners almost overnight go from being comrades-in-struggle to racial intruders in Africa and in African American cities?

• Boima Tucker

On AIAC Radio, DJ Ripley aka Professor Larisa Mann, and talk about her new book "Rude Citizenship" on copyright and the colonial legacy in Jamaica.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

On the South African-born anthropologist John Comaroff and the political economy of silence in academia.