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 [...]

Jeff Sessions

Jeff Sessions Embodies the Old South

January 3, 2018 // 0 Comments

[Appreared January 11, 2017 on the Real News] Kamau Franklin, a longtime activist and civil rights attorney and author joins Real News to discuss day two of the [...]

Jefferson Sessions, the Soon-to-be Attorney General, Embodies the Old South

January 3, 2018 // 0 Comments

(Originally Published January 10, 2017 in Atlanta Black Star) In 10 days, a man by the name of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III will most likely become the Attorney General [...]