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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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…
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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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