Hughes – the Promise of America was Meaningless Unless Universal Langston Hughes saw Trump coming at least as early as 1936, with the publication of his poem, Let America Be America again. I have journalist Paul Rosenberg to thank for reminding me. As the racist, overgrown child and tv con man who currently occupies the…
This extraordinary piece from The New Jim Crow author Michelle Alexander may wind up a significant milestone in the effort to force the world to respect the human rights of Palestinians. For more on the controversy raised by Alexander’s piece, read this from legal scholar Marjorie Cohn. – RR. Martin Luther King Jr. courageously spoke…
Forty seven years ago, on December 4, 1969, Black Panther party leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police officers with cooperation from the FBI. Hampton was 21 years old at the time. Hampton had founded the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party at the age of 20. He led in…
A message from the Black Panther Party: October 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party (for Self Defense). History will surely recognize the Party as having organized the single greatest effort by Blacks in the United States for freedom. Now, former members of the Black Panther Party have come…
In the most compelling debate we’ve seen thus far on the democratic dilemma we face, a conversation which covered Hillary & Trump, race, the captured black vote, corporate Democrats, American Exceptionalism and much more, Princeton professor of African-American Studies Eddie Glaude made it clear that yes indeed, we must stop Donald Trump. However, Glaude emphasized…
Statement to the media by the United Nations’ Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, on the conclusion of its official visit to USA, 19-29 January 2016 WASHINGTON D.C. (29 January 2016) – The Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent thanks the Government of United States of America for its…
On January 14, 1941 A. Philip Randolph first issued a call for “a March on Washington in 1941 to protest against governmental hiring practices that excluded African-Americans from federal employment and federal contracts.…
On September 3, 1838 Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey) escaped from a life of slavery while working at a shipyard in Baltimore. Read more about this extraordinary man here: From American Slave to American Man: The Escape of Frederick Douglass
