Letter to a Black Girl

Dear Future Black Girl Take your timeknow that forever’s promise is not often keptknow you are beautifulflourish in the idea of love Avoid hate at all costEven when they [...]
It’s Giving “No”

(Left to right: Oscar Cain, Jakalia Brown, Kamau Franklin) NoI will not be your martyrNot anymoreI will not lay my valuable life on the lineSimply for your entertainmentEvery [...]
Dhoruba Bin Wahad Commentary – A Response to the Racist Right Wing Rant Demonizing Jalil Muntaqim

My first impression when reading the headline “Anti-Semitic Cop Killer to Speak at University” was that someone convicted of racist hate crime that killed Cops of Semitic [...]
In a White man’s prisons: Walter Rodney, decolonization, and abolition

Walter Rodney was keen to the plight of Black people all across the world, both on the continent of Africa and throughout every inch of our diaspora. Whether in the streets [...]
Political Prisoners, Palestine, and Prison Abolition

I just flew in yesterday from Cuba, a small island less than 100 miles (or 180 kilometers) from the shores of Florida, that is under constant siege by US imperialism. Foreign [...]

November 2011

Will Occupy Wall Street Make the Black Masses Move Our Collective Asses

November 26, 2011 // 10 Comments

Many are questioning the lack of black support for the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) moment. The most clear general answer I can think of is that when black folks in mass are [...]