Badge of the Rapist Racist
As the first phase of the trial of police officer Daniel Holdzclaw comes to a close, one is forced to take stock of what the trial and it’s (lack of) coverage means. Holdzclaw, a 28-… Full Transcript
Electing Enemies
The U.S. Presidential elections are over a year from now, but if you relied on national media accounts, you’d think that they were all but imminent. But this isn’t the elections; it’s like an obstacle… Full Transcript
Death in Cell No. Five
A Sierra Leonean refugee named Oury Jalloh burned to death in Cell No. 5 in the city of Dessau, Germany.The Date: January 7, 2005Police at the station have called it a simple case of suicide.His… Full Transcript
Tamir
Question: When is a child not a child? Answer: When it’s a Black child. That question and answer came to me when I heard that the police killing of 12 – year- old Tamir Rice… Full Transcript
Centuries of Struggle Big House Prison Blues
‘Plus ça change …’ say the French; or ‘The more things change, of course, the more they stay the same.’ That thought, with all its despair and wisdom, resonates with particular power when we look… Full Transcript
From Katrina to Ferguson
It’s been 10 years since the watery carnage of Katrina, and 1 year since the fiery rage lit the night skies of Ferguson Missouri, and between the two harrowing events lay the state of Black… Full Transcript
The Nation of Islam Calls for Million Man March to Demand Justice or Else
The National Representative of the Nation of Islam, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, has called on African American, Latino/ a Native American, and Caucasian peoples to attend the coming October 10th gathering of the 20th… Full Transcript
Messin’ With Major
His name is Major — (his real name)–Major Tillery of West Philadelphia. Although he had a reputation as a gangster, in prison such things matter little. It’s as a jailhouse lawyer that he shook the… Full Transcript
When It Gets To This Point
Michael Brown? I had never heard of him had never heard anything he’d done before the news of his death came whoever he might have become whatever he might have achieved had he lived longer… Full Transcript
137 Shots
A man drives his companion down a Cleveland street, and before he knows it police sirens bite into the night air, sending a chill down his spine. He pushes his foot down on the accelerator… Full Transcript
May 13th at Thirty
Why should we care what happened on May 13th, 1985? I mean, seriously, that was 30 years ago, a long time ago, way back when, know what I mean? Most people won’t say that –… Full Transcript
MOVE Bombing 30th Anniversary
It seems incompatible with civility, o logic for that matter, that African Americans, in the 21st century, and under un Moreno president, are still asserting, and chanting phrases like: “Black lives matter” to prove human… Full Transcript
Thoughts On Killer Cops & The May 13th 1985 MOVE Massacre
Almost every day the news hits us with another case of a man, a youth, sometimes even a woman, shot, choked, or beaten to death by cops. Almost always the victims are people of color… Full Transcript
President Obama at Selma
March 2015 marked the 50th anniversary of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s historic protest march across the Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where scores of Black women, men and children were viciously… Full Transcript
Words Vs. Deeds
For now, the fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon is perhaps the most famous fraternity in America – for all the wrong reasons. It’s also been disbanded from the campus of the University of Oklahoma, at Norman,… Full Transcript
Ferguson USA
With breathless news reports, the U.S. Dept. of Justice’s Pattern and Practice Study paints a damning picture of a long, cruel and bitter train of maltreatment, mass profiling, police targeting and brutality against Black people… Full Transcript
Ode to Butter (Terrence Williams)
The name on his death warrant is Terrance Williams, but that’s not his name. It’s Terry Williams – and some clerk, some prosecutor perhaps, decided to make it “Terrance” —and so it is. The man… Full Transcript
Obama & Black History Month 2015
As the Obama Administration winds down, what is its relationship to Black History Month – 2015? Of course, the election of an African –American was indeed an historic event, and history books will record this… Full Transcript
Brother Phil Africa MOVE Member 1956-2015
31 JAN.: Celebrate the Life of Phil Africa! ONA MOVE, Everybody. First, let me thank each of you for your genuine and kind words to this family regarding the loss of our brother, Phil Africa.… Full Transcript
Cleveland officials announce no charges to be filed in the police killing of 12-year old Tamir Rice. There is something shattering about the death -the killing – of a child. When a child dies, the… Full Transcript