Black Lives Matter and The Black Panther Party: Understanding Their Similarities, Differences, And Their Impact On Society

Today’s Black Lives Matter Movement and the 1960s and 1970s Black Panther Party have achieved so much progress over the years. Both Movements were conceived 50 years apart, [...]
Reassessing Political Education

We are truly living in an age when information has become more easily accessible than it has ever been, but concurrently, a disdain for knowledge has become all the more [...]
We Charge Genocide

I wish there was more conversation around the lack of human rights protection of Black people in America. Black people have been at the hands of human rights abuses since our [...]
You Can’t Abolish the States Institutions without Abolishing the State that Created Them

In deciding to suggest abolition can be achieved by an attack on the institutions of the state while leaving the state in place creates a cognitive dissonance on why the [...]
A Series of Poems

TRIP TO THE INTERNATIONAL SLAVERY MUSEUM, LIVERPOOL In the evening gray, beside the sea,the dry docks are empty; there’s a nip in the air and someone I know is holdingher [...]

President Obama

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 [...]

As President Obama Prepares to Leave the White House, is His Legacy an Allegiance to White Supremacy

August 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

Kamau Franklin, Lawyer, Journalist, Community Organizer, was a guest on “Time for an Awakening” radio program. Mr. Franklin will discussed his article in the [...]

Does the Black President Owe Anything to the Black Community? No According to Most Mainstream Black Pundits

May 30, 2014 // 0 Comments

One of my favorite older blogs…wanted to [...]

Black Lives Matter and The Black Panther Party: Understanding Their Similarities, Differences, And Their Impact On Society

Reassessing Political Education

We Charge Genocide

You Can’t Abolish the States Institutions without Abolishing the State that Created Them

A Series of Poems

Grassroots Thinking

Messages from Community Movement Builders to the movement

President Obama

Here Is What President Obama Should Say Directly to the Black Community In His Farewell Address

As President Obama Prepares to Leave the White House, is His Legacy an Allegiance to White Supremacy

Does the Black President Owe Anything to the Black Community? No According to Most Mainstream Black Pundits