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Revolution and Race in Ada Ferrer’s Insurgent Cuba
Mar. 12 | In Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898, Ada Ferrer describes a nationalist revolutionary process in late Nineteenth Century Cuba that created new subject positions for African descended Cubans, enslaved and free, which in turn threatened...
Commodification of Suffering: An Ethics of Charity
Mar. 7 | While shopping at Whole Foods last week (yeah, I do that often #smirking) I came across a new Whole Foods brand coffee. It was arranged in a pyramid styled display, and the store rep., having just completed the task of assembling it, stood nearby staring...
Unoccupied Voters
Mar. 6 | One of the political realties of America today even during the Presidency of our nation’s first non-white president is the emergence of special interest political movements which have altered the legislative agendas of both state and federal political...
Interactive Negrophobia
Feb. 28 | by Gregory Thrasher In America life for Black folks has always been fought with various degrees,realties of racism and oppression. The ebb and flow of contempt for our very essence and being has often been like the wind sometimes the gust is strong sometimes...
Montessori: An Alternative Education for Black Children?
Feb. 21 | Securing the next generation of Black folks will have to mean raising children that can think outside of the boxes imposed upon the identities and trajectories of Black people. At a recent meeting of Black creative minds held in Akron (Ohio), the conversation...
Remarks on “Family” in the Third World
Feb. 16 | "Modern" Family? Capitalism and western modernity (colonialism) has produced a rupture in world history, particularly the “third world” precisely for the reason that it has re-arranged the structure of relationships and kinship among...
It’s Black History Month and the Sankofa Bird Speaks
Feb. 14 | History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is also a compass that people use to find themselves on the map of human geography. History tells a people where they’ve been and what they’ve been; where...
The Crime of Reporting Crime
Feb. 7 | Recently in the media industry various outlets and magazines including CNN and other outlets compiled a list of the most dangerous cities in the world; Detroit was on the list. This is an example of how shallow and worthless journalism, reporting and...
Can Black Youth Reject American Consumerism to Save Themselves?
Feb. 2 | “I’d open every cell in Attica—send ‘em to Africa.” -Nas “If I Ruled the World” Last week Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, spoke at Rankin Chapel about the need for Black students to reject American...
