Number one, we want to know what are we?  How did we get to be what we are?  Where did we come from?  How did we come from there?  Who did we leave behind, and what are they doing over there where we used to be?  This is something that we have not been told.  We have been brought over here and isolated. --Malcolm X The passage quoted above is an excerpt taken from an address Malcolm X delivered on December 20, 1964, to a regular meeting of the then fledgling Organization of A

Over and over again people ask, “What else do you want?”  They feel that everything is all right.  Well, let them look around at our big cities.  Let them look around Chicago, where a system of internal colonialism flourished in the slums not unlike the exploitation of the Congo by Belgium. --Martin Luther King, Jr. Our memories of Dr. King have been shrewdly pigeonholed into the comfortable moment of his August 1963, “I Have a Dream” speech.  The King who uttered the stateme

I began with a quote from Dr. Woodson because I want readers to know who he was and what motivated him to establish what is now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History in 1915....

Living in a deeply deep red state is not easy.