Originally published on Colorlines. Black Panther alumni celebrated the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Party in 2016. In this informal census we present the names of those who are still in prison, who were recently released and who died while incarcerated. One of the highlights of 2016 was the 50th anniversary of the […]
Originally published on MIC. Far too often, the conservative analysis of race dominates contemporary American public policy and national discourse. This was the unspoken but understood variable when Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby approached the podium in the midst of Baltimore’s unrest in May. Her willingness to fly in the face of this tradition resulted in one of […]
Originally published on Huffington Post. Dr. John Hope Franklin, the wildly accomplished historian who documented Blacks’ place in the great American story, firmly believed in reparations — the idea that the descendants of slaves in the United States should be compensated for the centuries of free labor that enriched slaveowners and their descendants and the […]
Originally published on Huffington Post. Yesterday, as I prepared for the kick-off to the national discussion tour focused on the theme “Is America Really Post-Racial?” which will convene in ten US cities this spring, I received emails from around the country commenting on The New York Post cartoon that depicts a chimpanzee being shot by […]