Sanders Must Change Language from Occupy to Black Lives Matter
Kamau K. Franklin and Lawrence Brown say Sanders must find a way to break through with Black voters if he wants a chance to win the nomination (Click here to [...]
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What the Death of Reactionary Supreme Court Justice Scalia Means for the Presidential Election
Attorney Kamau Franklin says Justice Antonin Scalia participated in some of the most reactionary rulings affecting blacks, women, gays and workers in Supreme Court history. [...]
The Need to Continue Our Support for Mumia Abu-Jamal
December 9th marks a historic day in the case of one of the most well-known political prisoners in the world. On that day in 1981, Mumia Abu-Jamal was critically wounded in [...]
THINGS FALL APART….BUT THAT IS OKAY
Great new essay by guest writer Rapheal Randall a proven community organizer in Philadelphia and organic intellectual, riffing on Chinua Achebe’s theme that “Things Fall [...]
RIGHT-WING FEAR MEANS GUNS EVERYWHERE – IN THE WILD, WILD SOUTH
If I kill you with a gun and you are not alive to say I did it, then is it always self-defense. Well in Georgia and several other states the answer is, as we already know [...]
Will Occupy Wall Street Make the Black Masses Move Our Collective Asses
Many are questioning the lack of black support for the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) moment. The most clear general answer I can think of is that when black folks in mass are [...]
Blacks in America Should be Headed to Divorce Court – Counterpoint to an Article in ThyBlack Man.com by Bro. Herndon
A short counter-point to my colleague Darrick Herndon’s piece in ThyBlack Man. America has never been a melting pot; it’s been more of a stew, where some of the [...]
