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

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

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”

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

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 two)

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 [...]

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Rapheal Randall

LIBERATORY EDUCATION: CULTIVATING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

March 20, 2018 // 1 Comment

Rapheal Randall originally drafted this piece during the fall of 2017, this document represents an attempt to theoretically articulate the vision driving Youth United for [...]

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 [...]

COMMUNITY CONTROL: REVITALIZATION & REUSE OF HUMAN POTENTIAL THROUGH SCHOOLS

April 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

This talk was given by Rapheal Randall as part of the “Justice + Space II” conference’s “Revitalization / Reuse” panel, held at the University of Pennsylvania on [...]

IN LOVE WITH THE IDEA OF DIRTY VISIONS

April 13, 2015 // 1 Comment

Great new essay by guest writer Rapheal Randall on inspiration, change, music and the movement. “I can tell they’re looking at us…” December 15, 2014. I’m [...]

THINGS FALL APART….BUT THAT IS OKAY

November 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

Great new essay by guest writer Rapheal Randall a proven community organizer in Philadelphia and organic intellectual, riffing on Chinua Achebe’s theme that “Things Fall [...]

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A Blog by Rabbi Brant Rosen

SLAM! Herstory Project

A multimedia oral history archive (and a book in progress!) about the Student Liberation Action Movement (SLAM!, 1996-2007) and the CUNY Coalition (1995) at the City University of New York.

Feminist Uppity and Black

Bandung 1955

Messages from Community Movement Builders to the movement

Navigating the Storm

Messages from Community Movement Builders to the movement

Cliff Notes from the South

Messages from Community Movement Builders to the movement

Uptown Notes

Messages from Community Movement Builders to the movement

iMWiL!

Emancipatory Journalism and Media

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