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The Black Power Mixtape Remix of Black Power
Oct. 5 | The admittedly thrown-together film Black Power Mixtape provides some rare footage of the period, but is otherwise a lightweight. “Other than professor Robin Kelley’s short but powerful comments, the only interviewees representing today’s generation...
Troy Anthony Davis and Useless Leadership
Sep. 28 | The grotesque spectacle of Georgia’s final execution of Troy Davis may have been politically useful to the pretenders to the mantel of Black leadership, but in the end the misleadership class proved useless to Troy. “My last words would have been...
How Black Colleges Are Turning White – The Ethnic Cleansing Of African Americans in the Age of Obama
Sep. 15 | How Black Colleges Are Turning White and Keeping Their Historically Black Colleges and Universities Status: The Ethnic Cleansing Of African Americans in the Age of Obama (Part 1 of 3 ) By Jahi Issa, Ph.D. For more than 100 years, HBCU’s have served...
William Parker, 9/11 and American Mythology
Sep. 14 | One thing for sure can be said of what 9/11 has meant; when this country recoils into itself, when it is hit – be that hit real or perceived – and it rallies itself around itself things get worse for damn near everybody else. Flags wave, planes...
At Least Some Ministers Tell the TRUTH: Hip-Hop, Social Media and Revolutionary Politics
Sep. 7 | Theoretically, “any Black woman or man is a potential revolutionary.” But here’s another truth: No organization, no revo – whether the potential revolutionaries are Internet-connected or not. A wired populace may hold in their hands the tools...
Sponsorship Matters! Of Name Drops and Memorials: Dr. King Gets Love from Hip-Hop
Aug. 31 | Every movement has its symbols and icons. But when these are separated from their context and content they become mere brands. Brands are symbols used to short circuit critical thinking and evoke manufactured desires, imagined memories or convenient...
The Corporate King Memorial and The Burial of a Movement
Aug. 24 | Dr. King and the liberation movement he represents will again suffer a brutal blow this week when all are permanently entombed under the violent euphemism of “memorial.” The dedication of this $120 million stone sculpture is to be a national tribute...
Mass Media and African Sovereignty
Aug. 3 | It is always appropriate for a people to question the status of their sovereignty. It seems especially timely during the month of August, or as some refer to it, Black August; the time when we commemorate the Black liberation struggle, prison reform...
Beaten Rhymes and Strife: The Instinctive Travels of A Tribe Called Colonized
Jul. 27 | A documentary film about the legendary rap group A Tribe Called Quest should be a very big deal. A film about them should be as wide-ranging as this collective of talent. And the film should be as powerful as the time and culture that produced...
