I was recently in Hartford, Connecticut, at the invitation of Mama Gwen Samuel, an activist who works on behalf and with the community. I wasn’t prepared for what I was to encounter; callousness of Black bourgeois, disregard...
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Theodore Roosevelt famously said: “Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.” According to a message I just received, some of our most prominent black leaders are about to put that saying into action on behalf...
On November 17, 1967, 3,500 Black students walked out of their classrooms and schools and converged at the School District of Philadelphia’s headquarters. They were on the School-to-Activism Pipeline. These student activists...
Many of my conscious Black friends shared their reflections about seeing the movie depicting Black folks in a “sunken place.” Well, if Get Out is anything like the slow-moving train wreck that keeps playing as I watch...
“Money is a good servant, but a bad master.” Just like you flip a coin, people can flip-flop on an issue. Especially when there’s money involved. There are those, like Malcolm X, who reinvent themselves through careful...
I have noticed that folks love to use quotes like Malcolm X’s famous line. He implored Black people to stop at nothing in the pursuit of freedom and justice. A lot of folks cringed when they heard him say it then. Now, though...
This is a guest post by Austin Gibson. Austin is a junior at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). I graduated from a west Philadelphia high school that’s a turnaround neighborhood charter school that used to be the...
At times, Black people, like any group battered and oppressed by the state, may celebrate any perception of forward motion. Folks scour social media pages to see who has what appointment, what political power is being amassed...
On Saturday, America’s oldest civil rights organization made its opposition to charter schools and Black families official. What the NAACP should have done, like their local chapter leader, Rodney Muhammad did, was spend time...
Some organizations are committed to a cause. Everyone knows exactly what they stand for. Look at Greenpeace—everybody knows that they’re about reducing human harm to the environment. All of Greenpeace’s resources go towards...