Dice Raw releases an 18-minute mini-doc that looks at the epidemic of Black incarceration in America through interviews with formerly incarcerated brothers from his hometown of Philly. The doc, as well as Dice’s new album of the same name, both take inspiration from Michelle Alxander’s accla... Read more...
Michelle Alexander, highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, Associate Professor of Law at Ohio State University, and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, delivers the 30th Annual George E. Kent Lecture, in honor of the late George E. Kent, who was one... Read more...
Dice drops off his lead single from the new project "Jimmie's Back". The imagery in this tale subliminally touches on the necessity of destroying the prison industrial complex which we ALL currently live under, whether we are currently in prison or not. We'll let Dice tell it: This song is call... Read more...
UJAMAA- to build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses together! Ujamaa/Cooperative Economic: “Commitment, duty, and obligation to promote and help build and maintain cooperative enterprises and initiatives the services of the family, neighborhood, and the human good.” Uja... Read more...
...like Trayvon Martin America loves Black men like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X and even Trayvon Martin - after they are dead... TRAYVON MARTIN is more valuable to America as a dead young black man then he ever was alive! As a dead symbol, the president can claim him as a son ... Read more...
And we're back! This week’s blog will be very brief; more like a remix to last year’s introduction for Black History Month. I am excited to showcase famous African Americans or Black people throughout history each day of the month of February. Each individual I’ve picked has one thing in ... Read more...
The book, The New Jim Crow, offers an unflinching look at the US addiction to imprisonment, and comes up with a startling diagnosis; American corporate greed, political opportunism and the exploitation of age old hatred and fears have congealed to create a monstrous explosion in the world's l... Read more...
At the beginning of the civil rights era in May 1961, a racially mixed group of men and women traveled by bus together from Washington, D.C., to New Orleans to test compliance with Supreme Court rulings that had outlawed segregated waiting rooms, lunch counters and restroom facilities for intersta... Read more...
Ernest Green hit the roads of the segregated South as a teen in the 1950s, using a travel guide that pointed out safe havens where African-Americans could eat and stay. The pamphlet promoted vacation without humiliation. On that trip in the 1950s, Green journeyed the 1,000 miles from Arkansa... Read more...