Richard Prince of the online column Journal-isms joined us for a quick update on the state of the press and of the Black press in particular. We also discussed, with some disagreement, the prospects for honoring the press tradition established by Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm co-founders of Freedom’s Journal (1827).
Read moreFruitvale Station is Sadly Fruitless
“I was worried about the police… Call it a father’s intuition… In the past, you could hang a black man from a tree and nothing would happen. Now, the same thing happened to Oscar Grant. It’s the same mentality. It hasn’t changed. Why is it always a white officer killing a black or brown youth…
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