(Black August) Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

"The very first time, it was like dying. Just to exist at all in the cage calls for some heavy psychic readjustments." Its been a long time...I shouldn't left you...without...okay, I'm done! I'm sorry I couldn't resist. Welcome back, sorry it's been so long since I've done a blog. I hadn't really read anything as …

Run With Ahmaud

I woke up this morning with so many feelings and I needed somewhere to put them. Last night I saw that Ahmaud Arbery's killers, Gregory and Travis McMichael had been arrested. How sad that that it took 74 days. How sad that it had to be sensationalized. Ahmaud Arbery's Killing and all of the events …

(The Panther Series) The Black Panthers Speak – Edited By Philip S. Foner

"We owe it to our ancestors to fight for the impossible" Excerpt p. 167 “Breakfast for Children pulls people out of the system and organized them into an alternative. Black children who go to school hungry each morning have been organized into poverty, and the Panther program liberated them, frees them from that aspect of …

12 Years a Slave

Excerpt p. 11 "Their young voices were music in our ears." "Their presence was my delight; and I clasped them to my bosom with as warm and tender love..." - Soloman Northup on the subject of his children. Included to emphasize the pain he must have felt when he was kidnapped and forcibly separated from …

Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Educational and Memorial Center

Transparency 2019: In keeping with my theme of transparency for the year, I'd like to admit that I struggled to write this blog. I struggled because of how much I love Malcolm and how much I could say about him. I struggled because this is the first time I've had to make a negative critique …