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January 10, 2011 – January 16, 2011
Lake schools grab big bucks in Race to the Top reform program Denise-Marie Balona, Orlndo Sentinel, January 16, 2011 Stop the Violence, Rally in Youngstown Staff Wtiter, WBKN, January 16, 2011 Diamond Bar students win Martin Luther King Jr. Youth Social Justice Awards Staff Writer, SGV Tribune, January 16, 2011 California Turning Tide on Youth Prisons Jakada Imani, San Fran Gate, January […]
Dr. King on Violent Rhetoric and Afghanistan

When fear monger Glenn Beck attempted to hijack Dr. Martin Luther King’s seminal moment, the March on Washington, by holding his own rally 47 years later, I imagined how Dr. King would have felt if he were alive to witness it. Here were two of the most divisive public figures, Beck and Sarah Palin, invoking Dr. King after having built their careers off of trying to scare white American into believing that the newly elected Black President intends to destroy everything America stands for. Both have given rise to some of the most racist rhetoric and violent imagery while seemingly wanting America to go back to a time when women had no rights and Black people were slaves. It was then that I wrote a short verse from Dr. King’s prospective about how he would see an America so divided along racial and political lines. Little did I know that in channeling Dr. King, some lines would indeed turn out to be almost prophetic.

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Dear Yemaja: A Year Later and Haiti Women Cry Out at Kanye West's Monster
Dear Yemaja (Lucumi/Santeria Mother Goddess), Last year, I wrote a blog entitled, Some Natural Disasters are not so Natural but Vodou (Spirit) will Prevail. Yes, I wrote that Spirit and Spirits would rise and rattle those who seek to indebt and control Haiti. I wrote that Haiti would rise. I wrote that Vodou—a spiritual and […]
Last Night KTD Saved My Life
Somewhere in Chicago the most promising band has its members contorting their bodies a few more times before it pries open the mouths of audiences across the world. Whether the gesture be frantic fingertips of an emcee, a rattling head of a saxophone player, or a subtle hand-to-thigh clap of a singer, the soul of […]
Chicken Trucks and Black and Milds: "The Game" Returns
Alright, so I’m a huge fan of the game. More than the storyline or subpar writing, I am a fan of the chemistry. The actors just seemed to work on that show. So like many others, I was crushed with the series was cancelled by the CW. For well over a year, I clung to […]
The Dark Continent: The Complicated Politics of Race
One of the most crucial political acts is to define what is political. The capacity to construct political reality is the ability to define the difference between democracy and dictatorship, slavery and abolitionism, legitimacy and dishonesty. Politics or the social affairs in the context of race have been contrary to what I thought as popular […]
The Politics of Kush and Orange Juice #TaylorGang
Wiz Khalifa generally likes to stay above the clouds. His critically acclaimed mixtape “Kush and Orange Juice” unabashedly describes his favorite recreational activity. In almost any of his music videos you can find Wiz laid back, with his eyes low sparking some green stuff. Whether he’s “waken and baken”, as he commonly tweets, or “in […]
A Double Standard in Case of Missing Black Teen?
A Double Standard in Case of Missing Black Teen? Sheryl Huggins Salomon, The Root, January 9, 2011 Would there be more media attention to Phylicia Simone Barnes’ disappearance if she were white? Baltimore police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi suggests that this is the case. “I can’t see how this case is any different from Natalee Holloway,”Guglielmi said, […]
Today in Post-Race History: Nigger x 219
*Someone please cue my righteous indignation music* It seems that we have officially reached the end of days. Birds are falling out of the sky; dead fish are coming in with the tide. News outlets are doing their best not to refer to Jared Loughner’s acts as ones of terrorism, and simply make efforts to […]
Unemployment falls to 9.4 percent, black teen joblessness still highest
Unemployment falls to 9.4 percent, black teen joblessness still highest Associated Press (via The Grio) | January 7, 2011 WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. unemployment rate dropped to 9.4 percent last month, its lowest level in 19 months. That was because more Americans found jobs, but also because some people gave up on their job searches. The Labor […]
Universities Are Challenged as Demographics Shift
Universities Are Challenged as Demographics Shift Reeve Hamilton and Jon Marcus, Texas Tribune (via NY Times), January 1, 2010 In August, 60 years after the University of Texas admitted its first black student, the school welcomed the first freshman class in which white students were in the minority. White students, who accounted for 51 percent of […]
The Dark Continent: Africa, Language, and Baboons
“Africa is a metaphysical testing ground in which Europeans used to get to know itself.” I have only been in South Africa for two days, and through my experiences and classes that I have taken I see the history of a beautiful country twisted into the realms of imperialistic patterns. As a Black American on […]