Why we should stop using slurs like “coon” (and others) to dehumanize other Black people.

We should stop using racial epithets as weapons against other Black people. Various words like “slave”, “coon”, “mammy” and “bedwench” are often wielded [...]
Patriarchy and Black National Liberation

Patriarchy and Black National Liberation [...]
Diaspora Wars in the Black Community: A Catalyst for Division

“The only difference is a boat stop.”, something that is said to remind us of the differences within the African diaspora, but there are other ways in which we are [...]
Black Lives Matter and The Black Panther Party: Understanding Their Similarities, Differences, And Their Impact On Society

Today’s Black Lives Matter Movement and the 1960s and 1970s Black Panther Party have achieved so much progress over the years. Both Movements were conceived 50 years apart, [...]
Reassessing Political Education

We are truly living in an age when information has become more easily accessible than it has ever been, but concurrently, a disdain for knowledge has become all the more [...]

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 [...]

Why we should stop using slurs like “coon” (and others) to dehumanize other Black people.

Patriarchy and Black National Liberation

Diaspora Wars in the Black Community: A Catalyst for Division

Black Lives Matter and The Black Panther Party: Understanding Their Similarities, Differences, And Their Impact On Society

Reassessing Political Education

Grassroots Thinking

Messages from Community Movement Builders to the movement

Rapheal Randall

LIBERATORY EDUCATION: CULTIVATING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

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

COMMUNITY CONTROL: REVITALIZATION & REUSE OF HUMAN POTENTIAL THROUGH SCHOOLS

IN LOVE WITH THE IDEA OF DIRTY VISIONS