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 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. [...]

Can Black Nationalism Be Revolutionary?

September 15, 2021 // 0 Comments

The idea of nationalism has been used in history as both a destructive force and a liberatory one. Some think of nationalism, and they think of a xenophobic, bigoted [...]

If Atlanta Can’t Solve KKK Linked Atlanta Child Murders, Why Do They Need A New “Cop City”?

September 14, 2021 // 0 Comments

As Atlanta intends on embarking on building a new military fortress “Cop City” and destroying an ancient forest to do so, it is important to look at some largely censored [...]

On the Significance of the Black Belt in the Black Liberation Struggle

September 13, 2021 // 0 Comments

For the New Afrikan independence movement— a movement that calls for the liberation of Black people or New Afrikans through the construction of an independent socialist [...]

Blackness Spreading Out : Our Wings

September 1, 2021 // 0 Comments

A black man stands in a crowd and begins to feel wings bursting through his back. Piercing and painful, but they cannot retract. The crowd of black folks pushes and pulls. [...]

The Death Within Strong Black Women Narratives/Towards A New Politics of Care

August 21, 2021 // 0 Comments

The past year and a half of an ongoing global viral pandemic, and continued uprisings in response to state-sanctioned violence against Black people, has produced serious [...]

Purposeful Histrionics

August 21, 2021 // 0 Comments

Today I went to a rallyFor a young black man murdered In his own home. I also attendedSome small group meetings For tenants to get outOf apartments that have been decaying [...]

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 [...]