Grassroots Thinking

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. [...]

The Fight for Our Minds | A Black Revolutionary Perspective on America’s Mental Health System

April 6, 2021 // 0 Comments

2020 was a psychologically taxing year for Black people. Not only did we contend with anxieties over the Covid 19 virus, but we also had to confront police terrorism, [...]

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

March 3, 2021 // 0 Comments

This is part two of a shortlist on Black women communists radicals must study. To read the first part of this list, click here. Charlene Mitchell Like many of the women [...]

The Limits of Black Liberalism

February 7, 2021 // 0 Comments

Barack Obama was the first Black President of the United States of America. For Black Americans who suffer the physiological and ecological harm inflicted by the state and [...]

The Link Between the Phone in Your Hand & Bloodiest Conflict in Modern Human History

January 23, 2021 // 0 Comments

We live in a world that is so thoroughly connected: our cell phones connect us to our friends and family across vast distances while our computers connect us virtually to our [...]