GREG PALAST: REPUBLICAN VOTER SUPPRESSION IS STEALING AMERICAN ELECTIONS
Greg Palast on voter suppression: "Since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013, the dark art of vote stealing is on steroids. Voters are being…
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Go See TONI STONE–The Remarkable Play, With April Mathis
Rehearsal; warming up for the show. Jonathan Burke; April Matthis; and Ezra Knight. Photo: Jenny Anderson. Pam MacKinnon, Director Based on the book “Curveball, The Remarkable Story of…
TRUMP’S UNITED STATES OF HATE INCITES RISING WHITE BACKLASH
Dr. Magee: "The preaching of 'whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also', is no longer applicable in these times. There's no…
FORMER PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA DENOUNCES RACIST RHETORIC AND INACTION IN WAKE OF TEXAS AND OHIO MASS MURDERS
President Barack Obama: "No other nation on Earth comes close to experiencing the frequency of mass shooting that we see in the United States. No other developed nation…
To 2019 Graduating Class: There Are Challenges But Keep The Ballot, Book, and Buck in Mind to win
Marc H. Morial. Photo: Facebook James Weldon Johnson said it best: “You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, ‘There's a world waiting…
Black Face, Jim Crow Terrorism, & White Privilege
A 1900 William H. West minstrel show poster. Photo: Wikimedia.org As a Black student in overwhelmingly White schools in Louisiana, I faced my share of racial insults and…
Beale Street Captures Baldwin’s wisdom, social consciousness and expansive imagination
If Beale Street Could Talk Film Review January 2019 “Tish, “she said, “when we was first brought here, the white man he didn’t give us no preachers to…
Saluting A Champion– Businessman Henry Thomas
Henry Thomas. Photo: www.hankthomasfreedomrider.com Henry Thomas is a prime example of the Black American success story. A recent Hank Aaron Champion for Justice Honoree, Henry "Hank" James Thomas…
Why New York Must Remove Dr. James Marion Sims’ Statue: Slavery, Racism and American Medicine
The Good Doctor was very evil. Centralparknyc.org The white supremacists, Neo Nazis and Klansmen with confederate flags, Swastika and other Nazi era paraphernalia some wearing tee shirts with…
Police Killings Of Black People — America Still Operates on the Dred Scott Principles
Officer Yanez. KSTP TV screen shot Philando's Murderer Jeronimo Yanez Gets Way -- Are You Kidding Me? Victims Mom Mourns We must pose several serious questions about the…