It’s September 1966, and the regular reader of Ebony gets the sinking feeling that its jali, Lerone Bennett Jr., is a little disconcerted. In the article, the magazine editor and history book author is in a vehicle zooming along in South Carolina at 70 mph by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee chairman Stokely Carmichael, and a…
Read moreBREAKING (NON-) NEWS: Attention, Mumia! No Reading (About the Young Lords Party) Allowed!
Why could Mumia Abu-Jamal receive books on Death Row in the 1980s, 1990s and 00s but is severely restricted in his ability to receive books in 2020, even though he is in general population? In the Acknowledgements section of Johanna Fernandez’s new book, The Young Lords: A Radical History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina…
Read moreWORDS MEAN THINGS: RECLAIMING MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. FROM THE GRIPS OF IMPERIALISM
by Devyn Springer KING’S SPIRIT IS THAT OF A TRUE REVOLUTIONARY WHICH CAN NEVER BE DISTORTED TO THE POINT OF NO RETURN, AND WILL ALWAYS LIVE ON FOR THOSE WHO NEED IT. In schools across the United States, few Black names grace the pages of curricula as frequently and with more energy than that of Dr….
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