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 […]
“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 […]
“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, […]
