By Kenneth Braswell Life can’t get more tragic for the parents of Trayvon Martin. The hard and cold facts are that they both lost a son way too soon in life. Certainly a call made late in the afternoon by police informing them that their son had been murdered had to be heart wrenching and unb... Read more...
And boy, did he say a lot. Mayor Nutter gave a speech entitled Cities United: A Conversation about Deaths of African-American Males, in Tallahassee, FL. With the speech being in Floriday, of course Trayvon Martin was brought up (with Nutter calling his death an “assassination”), along with p... Read more...
The Color Curve and Mic Check 1-Two! Present a Special Panel to the Philadelphia Community Standing Your Ground OR Standing Around?: The Trayvon Martin Murder & What We Can Do About Violence, Injustice and Race Relations in America What is the Trayvon Martin Murder Story? YOU MUST R... Read more...
Susan Taylor, the Mother of Mentoring in America, Is Asking You To Be "In" for Our Children Susan TaylorWants You To Be "In"! Harry Belafonte"I'm In!" Danny Glover"I'm In!" Mariah Carey"I'm In!" Oprah Winfrey"I'm In!" ... Read more...
It's Sunday the God's day a day of rest The Nba all stars are playing next But right outside that same city The celebratory atmosphere would change quickly Who watching the game with me you know lil Trayvon Was reppin his home town D Wade and LeBron He had just came up from Miami to see ... Read more...
Days of Rage, Rebellion and Revolution A Book Review By Mumia Abu-Jamal Love and Struggle: My Life with SDS, the Weather Underground and Beyond, by David Gilbert. (Oakland, CA: PM Press, forthcoming—December 2011). Perhaps it is the times: the election of a Black preside... Read more...
Mumia Abu-Jamal“Wrapped in the sweet, false escape of dreams, I hear the unmistakable sounds of meat being beaten by blackjack, of bootfalls, yells, curses; and it merges into the mind’s movie-making machine, evoking distant memories of some of the Philadelphia Police Department’s grea... Read more...
I’m not saying we’re being sold out for mere chump change. But I am saying that each time we look at this bill, we find something else that just ain’t right. I want you to remember these names: Lamar Smith, Joe Baca, Howard Berman, Marsha Blackburn, Mary Bono Mack, John Carter, Steven Chabot,... Read more...
Whenever someone thinks they have few bullet points of supreme wisdom that can save the world, sane people instantly roll their eyes. The insanely curious will, of course, be unable to stop themselves from reading on. You decide which you are. Here are three ways to save America’s Black boys: ... Read more...