Damani and Ife Keene joined us to discuss their new book project, a pan-African liberation book of historical fiction, one that tells the story of Damani’s real-life ancestor Mariah Otey Reddick. We discussed the importance of this approach to telling history, the story itself and the African diasporic story that includes West Africa, Jamaica, Panama,…
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One thing for sure can be said of what 9/11 has meant; when this country recoils into itself, when it is hit – be that hit real or perceived – and it rallies itself around itself things get worse for damn near everybody else. Flags wave, planes fly and more Black people lose their jobs…
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by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson During early 2018 prisoners across Florida are gonna “laydown” in nonviolent protest of the intolerable conditions in Florida’s prisons. The objectionable conditions being protested include unpaid slave labor, compounded by outright price-gouging in the system’s commissary and package services, and the gain-time scam that replaced parole, which, coupled with extreme sentencing,…
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