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 [...]

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Kamau Franklin On Panel about Police Violence and Militarization

January 16, 2015 // 1 Comment

On Martin Luther King’s Birthday, Kamau and other organizers came together in Baltimore, Maryland to discuss police violence and militarization. Take a look at the [...]