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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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 [...]

OUR RESISTANCE PLEDGE

December 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

Let January 20, 2017 be a day of resistance and the start of us being #Ungovernable. “Make yourself unavailable for servitude”- Toni Cade Bambara We pledge to create a [...]

ASSATA SHAKUR, EXCLUDING THE NIGHTMARE AFTER THE DREAM:

November 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Dhoruba al-Mujahid bin Wahad is an American writer and activist, who is a former prisoner, Black Panther Party leader, and co-founder of the Black Liberation Army. Dhoruba, [...]

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 [...]

An Ode to Obama and the Lie of Equal Grievance

July 22, 2016 // 1 Comment

Here is a man of great intelligence and wit. A man with a beautiful smile and an equally intelligent and beautiful wife with two lovely children. He is studied with great [...]

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 [...]

Intersectionality of Movements: Solidarity with Palestine

March 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

When police in Ferguson, Missouri launched tear gas at protestors, Palestinians on Twitter gave advice about how to deal with the effects. While not the first instance of [...]

Attorney Kamau Franklin Explains Why the Prosecutor Did Not Secure an Indictment in the Tamir Rice Case- Because We Live in America

December 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

Attorney Kamau Franklin in this interview with the Real News Network explains why the prosecutor’s approach in Tamir Rice’s case was flawed from the beginning [...]

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