Given persistent economic inequality and disproportionate mass incarceration, in the twenty-first century African Americans require territory for a national homeland. Malcolm X is the most prominent of recent embodiments of this desire conceived of by Black Americans. He is a tireless spokesperson and advocate for a national territory, as is […]
On my most recent travels to Washington, D.C. I didn’t cross the Anacostia River to visit the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site which was the home of the former slave and iconic abolitionist, orator, and writer. My time in the city was then little and winding down, and my frustration […]
Estimado Brasil: (Policía, Ejército, Falange) Entre maneras menos flagrantes para matar a Marielle Franco existía la posibilidad del suicidio de sus antepasados Africanos. Durante su esclavizada travesía marítima, ellos podrían lanzarse a las profundidades del Átlantico en forma de cadaveres de alga marina y la semilla de Marielle nunca […]
“Blatant Brazil” Esteemed Brazil: (Police, Army, Militias) There were less blatant ways to kill Marielle Franco. Foremost being before her African ancestors made their captured voyage to shore, they could have simply jumped ship into the depths of the Atlantic as seaweed carcasses, and her seed would have never […]
“Black Women Won’t Save the World” For: Erica Garner Despite pronouncements to the contrary, Black Women won’t save the world. Notwithstanding the circumference of the Cradle of Civilization in South Africa nestled in a locale from which all human beings originate; regardless of the excavations in Ethiopia of both […]
”Meek Mill Didn’t Get Killt (Nonfiction in 3 Voices)” Voice 1: In the land of curt consolations, one that is most apparent is that Meek Mill didn’t get killt although surely that could have happened in the City of New York which garnered a recent reputation for snuffing the life […]
ERIC GARNER, ALTON STERLING AND CONTROLLING BLACK BODIES IN THE AMERICAS (a text in three parts) “Detroit’s black day laborers gathered at an informal outdoor labor market on the city’s periphery, known to local whites as the ‘slave market.’ The large ‘open air mart’ thrived between the 1940’s and […]
The Charleston Nine, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Art of Jacob Lawrence Excerpt from “Meditations on Migration” One soul, hundreds, thousands may hear the whistle of the early-1900’s train in Jacob Lawrence Number #5. These are W.E.B. Du Bois’ “black refugees” who decades prior were also escaping the […]
“Cool Black Friend” By Audrey Shipp “Nothin’ from nothin’ leaves nothin’ You gotta have somethin’ if you wanna be with me” (“Nothing from Nothing,” Billy Preston) “You ain’t got to be rich to talk to Gucci, but you got to be part of something Ain’t nobody play no […]
“FOREIGN WHIPS AND DETROIT’S DECLINE” By Audrey Shipp “In the early 1940’s, Detroit was at its industrial zenith, leading the nation in an economic escape from the Great Depression. Between 1940 and 1947 manufacturing employment in Detroit increased by 40 percent, a rate surpassed only by Los Angeles, […]
