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…
Read moreInvitations to Whiteness
The following is an unpublished response to being asked to write a short, biographical description of my experiences with racism in the academy.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…
Read moreThe Politics of Gun Control, Racial Profiling and fear of Black Self-Defense
“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…
Read moreBook Review: The Commuter: Eddie Glaude Attempts to Confront James Baldwin’s Truths
Glaude sits back from a safe distance on our MSNBC screens, away from Baldwin’s edginess while constantly acknowledging it. Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and its Urgent Lessons for Our Own.Eddie S. Glaude Jr.New York: Crown.239 pp. $27. Reviewed by Todd Steven Burroughs In America once upon a time in the 20th century, there were…
Read moreOn Ending the Police Occupation and Terrorism Against Black People
A statement by Community Movement Builders The recent murders of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd Jr., David McAtee, Tony McDade, Nina Pop, Breonna Taylor, Priscilla Slater, Sean Monterrosa, and others are the most recent proof that the police (both state-employed officers and white terrorists who deputize themselves to “police” Black people) and the criminal justice system…
Read moreFantasies vs. Nightmares, Prison Abolition vs. Medical Genocide: As The “Free Mumia” Movement Prepares To Celebrate His Birthday, A Cruel, Late April Fool’s Joke About Abu-Jamal Possibly Having COVID-19 Symptoms Backfires
The harassment of radical senior citizen Mumia Abu-Jamal continues, even during a pandemic. It’s not enough that’s he’s been in jail for almost 40 years (he turns 66 on April 24). Now Pennsylvania prison authorities–the world’s sorest-winner champions–cruelly lied that he was ill, possibly with COVID. By Todd Steven Burroughs Death’s shadow can replicate over…
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