Category: Articles
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Book Review: The African, The European, And The Underground Whispers That Spurred Revolution
Julius S. Scott’s classic work reveals that in the 18th century, Africans both free and enslaved by the European powers were in…
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Redefining Veteran’s Day
Originally published in 2011 with Black Agenda Report. I am officially a veteran. Like many I was conscripted by this country’s…
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Can A Leopard Change Its Spots? Undermining the Black Studies Tradition
By Tryon P. Woods Speaking at a 1971 symposium sponsored by Atlanta’s Institute for the Black World, C.L.R. James made the observation…
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Texas Prison Report: Deceptions, Lies and Misappropriation of Funds at the W.G. McConnell Unit
by Keith “Malik” Washington Peace & blessings, sisters and brothers! Today is September 4th, 2018, the heat and humidity inside my cell…
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William Parker, 9/11 and American Mythology
One thing for sure can be said of what 9/11 has meant; when this country recoils into itself, when it is hit…
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Book Review: A Black Radical Intellectual Hero Writes, And Scholars Rescue, A Victory-Tinged History
Walter Rodney’s notes of his 1970-1971 lectures have been shaped into a book by Robin D.G. Kelly, Jesse Benjamin and Vijay Prashad.…
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Book Review: Michael Eric Dyson And “Official And Safe Lines Of Thought”
What Truth Sounds Like: RFK, James Baldwin and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America.Michael Eric Dyson.St. Martin’s Press, 294 pp. $24.99.…
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BOOK REVIEW: ZORA TAKES (HER) TIME, AND FREEZES IT BLACK
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo.” Zora Neale Hurston. Edited by Deborah G. Plant. Foreword by Alice Walker. Amistad, 208…
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Book Review: Malcolm X: History Is Best Qualified
The Judas Factor: The Life and Death of Malcolm Shabazz Limited 25th Anniversary Edition. Karl Evanzz. Xis Books, 541 pp.,…
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BOOK REVIEW: New Mumia Abu-Jamal Book A Decolonizing House of Common Sense and Proper Propaganda About G*d$#mn America
Murder, Incorporated: Empire, Genocide and Manifest Destiny. Book One: Dreaming of Empire. Mumia Abu-Jamal and Stephen Vittoria. Foreword by Chris Hedges. Prison…
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Book Review: Ron Walters, Power Man
Ronald W. Walters and the Fight for Black Power, 1969-2010. Robert C. Smith. State University of New York Press, 354 pp., $34.95.…
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South Carolina Prisoners Reflect on Causes of Violence In Prisons and Solutions
The following was submitted by Jared Ware whose information and contact follow the interview. The deadliest incident of violence in a United…
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It’s Bigger Than Kanye: Hats, Hugs and Colonial Relations
Whew! The hat, that line from Kanye West about enslavement being “a choice” and his subsequent attempts to clarify himself are just,…
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Race, Rebellion, Reporting and Research: Baltimore and The Kerner Commission at 50
“Can you hear me? … I’m Screaming from way down here below!” – Hugh Masekela I. INTRODUCTION “Chief Blame for Riots Put…
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Beggars On Horseback: Creating a Pan-African Power Paradigm for the 21st Century
Last month Reuters reported that : More central banks in Europe revealed plans on Tuesday to hold yuan as part of their…