Honoring Amiri Baraka: A great writer and organizer
It was during the winter of ’58 and all of ’59 that I got used to seeing then LeRoi Jones, the black writer white intellectuals …
It was during the winter of ’58 and all of ’59 that I got used to seeing then LeRoi Jones, the black writer white intellectuals …
RIVIERA BEACH — Tracy Martin, father of slain teen Trayvon Martin, presented longtime civic leader Dan Calloway with the 50 Year Living Legends Award at …
Although we are consistently told by all manner of data that the American populace is divided nearly in half politically, there are so many other …
Although we are consistently told by all manner of data that the American populace is divided nearly in half politically, there are so many other …
I was probably born listening to jazz music. It was the dominant sounds of my Harlem upbringing. Its roots of work songs, blues and gospel …
Well, here we are again, entering “Black History Month,” and our “educated” class led by blacks who have earned doctorate degrees in education (Ed. D.) …
Unless you want to live in the projects or a deteriorating tenement building teeming with America’s black poor, grand Harlem, with its mixture of the …
What flipped me into revolutionary-type fervor as a young teenager was the gruesome photograph of 14-year-old Emmett Till’s battered remains on the cover of Jet …
Young Trayvon Martin was profiled, hunted and slain, for being black and wearing a hoodie in the rain. If you’re black and hoping for justice …
It is important that serious attention be focused on what those who ostensibly speak for us are doing. Without a finely honed accountability factor, political …