Mumia Abu Jamal - With Leaders Like These With 'Leaders'Like These ••• [col. writ. 8/20/11 Mumia Abu-Jamal It has taken a while to reach this conclusion, but upon reflection, it is inescapable. Why, after over a half century of the vote and the election of more Black... Read more...
Private-Public Partnership Will Invest More than $120 Million in Educational, Employment, and Mentoring Initiatives across the Five Boroughs Building on its long commitment to reverse systemic injustices in the United States, the Open Society Foundations today announced that it is joining a new i... Read more...
Oh say can you see…the end of American independence? This Fourth of July, the United States celebrates its 235th year of freedom from British rule. That’s emancipated us from yeasty marmite, pesky ‘u’s in our ‘neighbors’ and from having to ask God to “save the Queen”. Phew.... Read more...
http://theassatadaughtersproject.tumblr.com/ Iresha Picot and Natasha Butler, Assata’s Daughters, come together to build a collection of work for Black Women, by Black Women, in the name of our Revolutionary Warrior Mama, Assata Shakur. In a 1978 article in the Black Scholar, Assata Shakur... Read more...
THE legal scholar Derrick A. Bell foresaw that mass incarceration, like earlier systems of racial control, would continue to exist as long as it served the perceived interests of white elites. Thirty years of civil rights litigation and advocacy have failed to slow the pace of a racially biased d... Read more...
Unfortunely this is part of our history; I feel like people need to know there are still minstrels in entertainment today but without the paint. So, before Lil Wayne and BET, in the 1840s and 50s, William Henry Lane and Thomas Dilward became the first African Americans to perform on the minstre... Read more...
Doublethink - is the act of simultaneously accepting as correct two mutually contradictory beliefs. It is related to, but distinct from, hypocrisy and neutrality. Its opposite is cognitive dissonance, where the two beliefs cause conflict in one's mind. According to the novel, doublethink is: ... Read more...
The Australian government is set to intensify its war against Internet freedom by forcing web users to install state-approved anti-virus software. If they fail to do so, they will be denied an Internet connection, or if their computer is later infected, the user’s connection will be terminated. ... Read more...