Saturday, March 09, 2019

Yet Another Email To A Warden!

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Twice in the past two days, I've had to contact a warden of a "correctional" facility in Alabama about the well-being ...
Friday, March 08, 2019

Dear Warden Stewart

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[In solidarity with Robert Earl Council AKA Kinetik Justice, the Free Alabama Movement, F.A.M. Queen Team, Unheard Voices OTCJ, T.O.P...

CALL FOR ACTION!

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The following Press Release has been issued by the Free Alabama Movement, F.A.M. Queen Team, Unheard Voices OTCJ, and T.O.P.S. FOR IM...
Sunday, February 17, 2019

Gary Clark, Jr.: "This Land"

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  A few weeks ago, I wrote about "Criminals in Amerikkka" . I'm going to do some more writing on that topic soon. But in the...
Saturday, January 26, 2019

Down the Rabbit Hole

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I've been walking on the wild side intellectually of late. I don't know if some circuit has exploded in my brain or if I spend...
Sunday, January 20, 2019

Criminals in Amerikkka

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For very nearly fifty years now (fifty years of writing letters/emails/articles/posts, accepting calls, visiting, sneaking in, going in ...
Tuesday, January 01, 2019

On the Poison of Prison and Community as the Antidote

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Another year has come and gone; another year of writing and teaching and blogging and talking and thinking and learning about the social...
Friday, November 23, 2018

Ashley Akunna: On Lynching, Police Brutality, and Anti-Black Terrorism

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Now This Opinions feature short but provocative videos offering real deal perspectives on controversial issues. I often appreciate them. ...
Friday, November 16, 2018

Do You Fear Black Men?

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I know very few bloggers I have followed as long as I have followed Brotha Wolf . It's probably because somewhere along the line, he...
Sunday, September 02, 2018

On Being Schooled

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Over the past year, despite the fact that I've been trying to fight my own internalized White Supremacist training for decades, the U...
Friday, August 24, 2018

Marilyn Buck: "Black August"

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On August 19th last year, I was in Washington, D.C., across the street from the White House with hundreds of other people from all over ...
Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Rest in Power, George Jackson

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“Right now, we are in a peak cycle. There’s tremendous energy out there, directed against the state. It’s not all focused, but it’s ther...
Saturday, August 18, 2018

Aretha Franklin: "I Say a Little Prayer for You"

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I was in my mid-20s when I had my first conversation with a man who had just gotten out of prison (San Quentin) about the inside organi...
Friday, August 10, 2018

Dear Warden

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This has been a complicated week. I somehow wound up at the center of just the kind of situation I long ago learned to avoid like the ...
Sunday, August 05, 2018

Call for Immediate Action!

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The following communique was received today (handwritten) from men incarcerated at David Wade Correctional Center. We need to get these...
Friday, August 03, 2018

Workers Work and Sometimes Die to Make the Bosses Rich

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As incarcerated citizens make plans to initiate a worker's strike from sea to shining sea in the United States on August 21st (the da...
Thursday, July 19, 2018

The Personal Is ALWAYS Political

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I've always heard that Emmett Till, at 14 years of age, was lynched in ghastly fashion because he whistled at a White woman. Actuall...
Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Free Henry Montgomery Now!

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There are many ways to lynch a man. The one most people think of when they hear the word is by hanging. If you're more historicall...
Friday, July 06, 2018

FreeQuency: "The Gospel of Colonization"

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When Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa started speaking this piece, I thought, "Oh, good! This is going to be about immigratio...
Wednesday, July 04, 2018

America, the Beautiful...or Not

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All this needs today is "America, the Beautiful" playing in the background while Porsha O. gives it to us from her perspective...