Thursday, September 05, 2013

Rest In Peace, Ralph Ray Evans

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Today, they put the body of my daughter's father in the ground. In memory of him, I'm re-posting this Emmanuel Jal video that I fi...
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Sunday, August 25, 2013

Akinyele Omowale Umoja: We Will Shoot Back

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The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement turned me onto a set of five YouTube videos showing Akinyele Omowale Umoja discussing his book on Bl...
Friday, August 16, 2013

The Shiz: "The New Jim Crow"

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A few months ago, on my early morning jog down the country road I live on, I heard a voice telling me I was being held down. I knew what...
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Thursday, August 01, 2013

Jay Smooth: On Don Lemon, Race and "Respectability"

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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

All Aboard For Fruitvale Station

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Originally, I wasn't going to see "Fruitvale Station," the just released film about the last twenty-four hours in the life...
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Friday, July 26, 2013

The Boondocks: "Return of the King"

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Folks are always forwarding me stuff they've come across (for which I'm grateful). And they usually say two things: "You...
Sunday, July 21, 2013

The Coup Is NOT Just Going On In Egypt

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I like to think I have a clue. Sometimes I don't; sometimes I do. I just found out about The Coup (an Oakland-based political hip hop ba...
Friday, July 19, 2013

Blackmon: "America's Twentieth Century Slavery"

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This is the first story in an eleven-part series of stories on Race -- Past and Present sponsored by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and orig...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Langston Hughes: Kids Who Die

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Kids Who Die by Langston Hughes This is for the kids who die, Black and white, For kids will die certainly. The old and rich will ...
Monday, July 15, 2013

There Will Be No Peace Until There Is Justice

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Atlanta, GA Boston, MA Chicago, IL Detroit, MI Houston, TX Kansas City, ...
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Sunday, July 14, 2013

Dear George,

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I know you think you won last night. When the verdict was read, I'm sure you exhaled for the first time since that fateful night la...
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Sunday, July 07, 2013

For The Next Month, "Herman's House" Is The Place To Be

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I have resisted writing this blog post for thirteen days. I know my readers have been waiting for a while now for me to suit up and show ...
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Friday, May 24, 2013

The John Brown Brigade

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The other day, Google sent me a signal that someone had left a comment on my post on "There's No Such Thing a...
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Friday, April 12, 2013

"For Colored Boys, Redemption" Seeks Funding

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First Episode: So what's it's gonna be...?
Sunday, March 24, 2013

Angola 3 vs The State of Louisiana: The Battle of the Century

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In a ruling on February 26th, Albert Woodfox (one of the Angola 3 that I have written about before ) had his conviction overturned for th...
Sunday, February 17, 2013

Jon M. Chu: "Silent Beats"

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This short film by Jon M. Chu is so powerful, I'm not even going to say anything about it. It's entitled "Silent Beats"...
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Sunday, February 03, 2013

There's No Such Thing As Black History

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When I was first asked to be the guest speaker tomorrow at the NAACP campus chapter Black History Month Kickoff (a well-attended annual a...
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Emmanuel Jal: Cush

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A couple of years ago, I learned of a man named Emmanuel Jal . He had just published a bestselling book about his experiences as a Sudane...
Sunday, January 27, 2013

Louis CK On The Historical Context Of White Supremacy

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A couple of days ago, I re-posted Brotha Wolf's discussion of Whiteness in the U.S. I'm certain some White folks would be more th...
Friday, January 25, 2013

Brotha Wolf: About the White Male Problem

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I am hosting another of Brotha Wolf 's blog posts today. In it, he features and discusses three recent essays examining White male ...
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