Grassroots Thinking

Bill Cosby’s conviction has been overturned. Has anything fundamentally changed?

July 14, 2021 // 0 Comments

To be clear, Bill Cosby is an ADMITTED serial rapist. Recent events do not change that fact, for better or for worse. Read about the technicalities of the judgement here. [...]

Black and Brown Consent

June 24, 2021 // 0 Comments

Consent in Afro-Caribbean Spaces and Beyond Imagining Culturally Competent Consent It’s summer in the city, everyone’s wearing less and going out more, and event flyers [...]

They Institutions Vs. Ours

June 22, 2021 // 0 Comments

In one of their tracks, titled They Schools, M-1 and Stic Man, a.k.a the rap duo, Dead Prez, rapped about the horrors of the U.S. school system. In this song, Stic Man [...]

A Grassroots Account – How Gentrifiers (New Residents) Are Violent Towards Historically Poor and Working-Class Black Communities

March 31, 2021 // 0 Comments

Gentrification has become a top-of-mind issue in urban and historically low-income communities of Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) communities. The legacy [...]

“A Case for Gatekeeping Black Music”

March 7, 2021 // 0 Comments

I studied classical music for a few years in college.To no one’s surprise this included a very rigorous and a very white curriculum. While it was standard for all [...]

January 6th

March 5, 2021 // 0 Comments

On June 1st, 2020, in the wake of the country’s outrage about the murder of Breonna Taylor, Ahmed Arbery, and George Floyd, I was arrested during at a Black Lives Matter [...]

Lesser-known Black women communists you must learn about (part one)

February 27, 2021 // 0 Comments

For as long as white society has oppressed Black people, Black women have led struggles for the liberation of Black people throughout the diaspora. Black women have and [...]

University Endowments and Abolition Feminist Movements:

February 4, 2021 // 1 Comment

A Call for Extending U.S. Based Endowments to Community Knowledge Production Sites As we all conjure up futures beyond our current climate crisis and public health emergency, [...]

African-American Holidays: Traditions of Self-Determination

January 20, 2021 // 0 Comments

Every year we hear the same arguments made about why African-Americans should not celebrate American holidays. From an African-centered perspective, American holidays are [...]

Kennesaw State is protecting a racist murderer cop. Kennesaw State is protecting a racist murderer cop. Kennesaw State is protecti…

December 20, 2020 // 0 Comments

RIP Rayshard Brooks [...]

Atlanta is Cap

November 28, 2020 // 0 Comments

Atlanta, the home of trap music, Fortune 500 companies, wealthy Black socialites, and entrepreneurs. The city has been termed the “Black Mecca” and the [...]

#ENDSARS pt. 1

October 26, 2020 // 0 Comments

Miliaku writes about the #Endsars protest and it's historical context. [...]

On the Term ‘New Afrikan’

July 23, 2021 // 0 Comments

In our writing and agitational propaganda on the Black liberation struggle in the ameriKKKan empire, Black revolutionary nationalists and communists often refer to a certain [...]

What is causing a spike in crime? Capitalism and white supremacy.

July 16, 2021 // 0 Comments

If you live in the Atlanta area, you likely have been inundated with endless stories about the rise of crime that has been occurring in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. [...]

Looking Back at the Young Lords Occupation of Lincoln Hospital 51 Years Later

July 15, 2021 // 0 Comments

On July 14th, 1970, the Young Lords occupied Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx, New York, in response to the grave injustices occurring at the hospital that had been plaguing [...]

The Assasination of Jovenel Moïse

July 13, 2021 // 0 Comments

For colonized peoples, there is no just reward for a life lived in service to empire. Haiti’s puppet tyrant, Jovenel Moïse, learned this final lesson this morning. [...]

A Collection of Poems

June 8, 2021 // 0 Comments

Rage Do you ever feel rage?A subtle feeling you can’t quite explainWith thoughts you just can’t get out your brainWhere it feels like maybe you’ve gone insane Can you [...]

Cryptocurrencies, Fake Freedom, and Pan African-Pandering

May 28, 2021 // 0 Comments

Introduction This essay is written specifically to address the current trend of Black Financial Literacy Hustlers, who have devised crafty individualist, for- profit schemes, [...]

In metro Atlanta, another cop gets away with killing a Black person

May 19, 2021 // 0 Comments

The warehouse in Austell where Officer Max Karneol murdered Vincent Truitt. About 15 to 20 minutes outside of Atlanta lies the city of Austell, Georgia. Austell is in two [...]