African Power & Politics In Cuba’s La Marina Neighborhood

It’s quite similar each time. In the Miami airport, loudly-dressed individuals and fast-talking families, flock shoulder-to-shoulder in line, waiting to present their [...]
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 [...]

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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 [...]