Critique
Jan. 26 | “And I don’t give a f#@k what Bill Cosby said
’cause the problem gon’ exist when Bill Cosby’s dead
And I don’t think the revelation from the supreme beings
residing or hiding out in Bill Cosby’s head”
-Jay Electronica...
Dec. 26 | (Republished.) Christmas for Africans in the Atlantic world has always been about controlling their minds, energy and whereabouts because they were (and some would argue they still are) property.
Instead of being “staid, sober, thinking and industrious”...
Dec. 12 | “Stand Up! Testify! We Won’t Let Troy Davis Die!”
The militant chant of hundreds of mainly black, but also many white, protesters marching on the state capitol building to a somber NAACP-Amnesty-International prayer vigil in downtown Atlanta, Georgia,...
Oct. 10 | …for many of the Occupy Wall Street protestors, it seems like venting is enough. Collective strategizing for long-term change may not be a part of the plan.
by Laura Turner-Essel
Liberation psychologist Bruce Levine argues in Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting...
Sep. 7 | …if we are ex-communicating people based on their lack of concern or outright hostility toward Black people, are we kicking out the drug dealers, gang-bangers, and pimps whose missions include becoming rich and powerful at the expense of our communities?
by...
Sep. 4 | “We are MEN! We are not beasts and do not intend to be beaten or driven as such. The entire prison populace has set forth to change forever the ruthless brutalization and disregard for the lives of the prisoners here and throughout the United States....
Aug. 30 | …the liberal elite stands for nothing but the status quo, and they want you, the naive, vagabond “uneducated radicals,” to join them in their cynical stand for injustice.
by BrerRabbit
About five years ago, as an overachieving junior scholar-activist...
Apr. 28 | As the movement for Trans-Atlantic slavery reparations gathers steam, the opposition is busy waging a strategic battle for the sub-consciousness of slavery’s victims.
Reels of film are being thrown into production to depict Africa’s part in...
Sep. 4 | “We want an end to the political and social oppression and economic exploitation of African women. We believe in the absolute, unequivocal, political, social, and economic equality of African women and men. We believe that a fundamental test of the...
Jun. 3 | Roots Revolution Live! Tribute to the great work of Burning Spear, an unapologetic Garveyite