Black Power, Black Lawyer: My Audacious Quest For Justice. Nkechi Taifa. Foreword by Greg Carr. Washington, D.C.: House of Songhay II., 379 pp. Reviewed by Todd Steven Burroughs Back in the days when radicalism was the norm in Black America and elsewhere, there once was a girl who sat on a Black Panther’s lap, abandoned…
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The following is an unpublished response to being asked to write a short, biographical description of my experiences with racism in the academy. You know how I knew from the beginning that I could not support Barack Obama? It was not only because I am far to his political Left or that I see his…
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“Violence in American is as American as Apple Pie!” – H. ‘Rap’ Brown (Imam Jamil Al-Amin,) Political Prisoner On a daily basis in the U.S.A. thousands of young Black males are randomly stopped and frisked, arrested, shuttled through the Industrial Criminal Justice Complex. These youth are given a criminal…
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