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 [...]

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 [...]

Letter to a Black Girl

It’s Giving “No”

Dhoruba Bin Wahad Commentary – A Response to the Racist Right Wing Rant Demonizing Jalil Muntaqim

In a White man’s prisons: Walter Rodney, decolonization, and abolition

Political Prisoners, Palestine, and Prison Abolition

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