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 [...]

Organizing/Activism

Looking Back at the Young Lords Occupation of Lincoln Hospital 51 Years Later

July 15, 2021 // 0 Comments

On July 14th, 1970, the Young Lords occupied Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx, New York, in response to the grave injustices occurring at the hospital that had been plaguing [...]

Power vs. Equality: Malcolm X Sought Not to Change America But to Change Black People

January 3, 2018 // 0 Comments

Black America must continue to think about the ideological paradigm shift Malcolm ushered in during the 1960s that still holds some sway over a significant portion of those [...]

Here Is What President Obama Should Say Directly to the Black Community In His Farewell Address

January 3, 2018 // 0 Comments

(Originally published January 7, 2017 in Atlanta Black Star) President Barack Obama is scheduled to give a farewell address to the American people on January 10 from his [...]

NAACP Brings a Knife to a Gunfight: Sit-In Protest In Jeff Sessions’ Office Illustrates Glaring Need for New Tactics

January 3, 2018 // 0 Comments

(Originally published January 5, 2017 in Atlanta Black Star) The NAACP staged a sit-in Tuesday, Jan. 3, in the Mobile, Alabama, office of Jeff Sessions, Attorney General [...]

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

Organizing/Activism

Looking Back at the Young Lords Occupation of Lincoln Hospital 51 Years Later

Power vs. Equality: Malcolm X Sought Not to Change America But to Change Black People

Here Is What President Obama Should Say Directly to the Black Community In His Farewell Address

NAACP Brings a Knife to a Gunfight: Sit-In Protest In Jeff Sessions’ Office Illustrates Glaring Need for New Tactics