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 [...]

October 2016

WHEN WE ALL WORK, WE ALL MOVE: MAKING BLACK LIBERATION REAL

October 24, 2016 // 1 Comment

Rapheal Randall delivered this speech on October 23, 2016 at the “Black Liberation Strategies Then & Now” panel hosted in Philadelphia, PA by Catalyst Project, the [...]

Final Presidential Debate Accentuates Candidates’ Divide on Abortion Rights

October 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

The candidates take neoliberal positions on most issues, but their positions on Roe v. Wade show what’s at stake for women’s rights, says attorney Kamau Franklin. [...]