Clearly there are hard and humbling lessons to be learned from the human and ecological disaster directly caused by British Petroleum (BP) in April 2010 in its perverse pursuit of profit…
CHEIKH Anta Diop rightly raised the still relevant, even urgent, question of our finding within ourselves the will and way to reach back and down into the depth of our culture…
THE ANNIVERSARY of the assassination and martyrdom of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. calls for us not only to pause to pay rightful hommage to him and the great gift of life he gave us…
As March, Black History Month II—Women Focus, comes to an end, and with it, all the special speeches, learned lectures, plays, poems and various other programs and performances to celebrate and honor Black women…
Whatever we think, say or assume about the racist rant and chant of the young White men of the SAE fraternity and their female companions at the University of Oklahoma…
There is no justice-yielding present or dignity-affirming future for a people that concedes its rightful place as primary subject in its own history and willingly…
It was clearly a White thing, not a Black thang, or a multicultural mixer of equals, and all of us could easily understand it. It was White folks’ big night out, the night of “Mr. Charlie”…
LAST Saturday we came together from many backgrounds and beliefs to hold a march and rally with the essential, overarching and interrelated purpose of building unity…
THIS is the month that marks the 50th anniversary of the martyrdom of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, Min. Malcolm X, who was assassinated and martyred in the 39th year of his life, February 21, 1965…
The histories and holidays of the oppressed, colonized and enslaved are, of necessity, different from the history and holidays of the oppressor, the colonizer and the enslaver.
There is no written or reliable record on the day of her birth, but we do know the date of her transition, November 26, 1883…
In the Sixties and even for a short time afterward, Blackness was conceived and engaged as a very serious and sacred thing.