Jefferson would go on to ruminate, “Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever ….”

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.

“Racists will always call you a racist when you identify their racism. To love yourself now is a form of racism. We are the only people...

“Until the killing of black men, black mothers’ sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother’s...

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti- intellectualism has been a constant...

A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect. --W. E. B. DuBois There is a malignant cancer festering in this society; a...

“When you make men slaves you deprive them of half their virtue, you set them, in your own conduct, an example of fraud, rapine, and...

“… most white Americans have been taught to see themselves as individuals, not as members of a privileged group, so they are shaken and...

“Give advice, if people don’t listen let adversity teach them.” --Ethiopian proverb 45 is gone from the White House, but the same “good...

“Rain beats a leopard’s skin, but it does not wash out the spots.” --Ashanti proverb Independents. Democrats. Republicans. Republicrats....

If we are to become a psychologically, physically and spiritually whole people once again ... healing must take place.

"I do not know the power of my hand ..."

I am a soon to be 68 year old black man ... I have looked down the barrel of more than one Police white man's gun.

Colin Kaepernick knelt during the national anthem in silent, peaceful protest against police killing unarmed black men.

In a riveting speech to the 1964 Democratic National Convention, Fannie Lou Hamer, declared, “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired."

America is, now, what it has always been: a nation that is desperately trapped in the consequences of its own lies, distortions, deceits....

The first Africans enslaved in America did not answer to, "Nigger."