By largely ignoring questions of "why" he was killed the new Netflix documentary "Who Killed Malcolm X?" largely ignores the important politics and ideas that made Malcolm X a symbol to this day of...
Thursday night, the People's Organization for Progress, a New Jersey progressive activist group, will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the police killing of a Black man named Earl Faison. He was...
By Todd Steven
Burroughs NEWARK SYMPHONY HALL was, at best, half full Thursday night for the funeral of Kenneth Gibson, whose full surname will always be Newark’s first African-American mayor and...
Tonight, election night in Newark, NJ, represents the 4th anniversary since Ras Baraka took over as mayor. We are reposting our original, author-narrated, audiobook covering the history and campaign...
We had a real Black Misfits conversation with bassist, music guru and radio producer Luke Stewart and the iMiXWHATiLiKE crew about Black rock, Afro-Punk and misfit race relations. It was a laid...
Amiri Baraka’s Son Becomes Mayor of Newark, New Jersey By Earning It AN ELECTION ANALYSIS By Todd Steven Burroughs NEWARK, N.J.—Ras Baraka, one of the sons of the late poet/playwright Amiri...