Conscious Black Educators Must Take our Rightful Place in the Movement to Educate our Youth!
Black people's concern with the U.S. public education system - it's intent, policies, curriculum and practices - is longstanding. Our...
An Open Letter to Black Women from Black Men
BLACK WOMEN: WE RECOGNIZE (THOUGH NOT AS MUCH AS WE SHOULD) YOUR IMPORTANCE TO US, OUR FAMILIES, ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMUNITIES.WE...
The Devaluation of Africana Studies
Black people have always been devalued and disregarded in the United States of America. It should come as no surprise that the history,...
Avoid Becoming an Enemy of the People
When the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Ella Baker, Malcolm X and Kwame Ture (a.k.a. Stokely Carmichael) and others raised consciousness and...
What's the Big Deal about "Knowledge of Self?"
It is a phrase many Black activists and Hip Hop artists use with almost obsessive regularity. Indeed, the phrase "Knowledge of Self,"...
Ideology and Dogmatism Vs. Black Power
Anytime you read or hear an organizer, leader or spokesperson discuss their ideas, policies, concerns, solutions or projects, you are...
Black Social Media Commentators Should Be Competent & Qualified!
The creation of the Internet and the emergence of social media platforms is a mixed blessing. On one hand we applaud how this development...
KEEPING IT REAL OR KEEPING IT WRONG? THE LIMITATIONS OF BORROWED BLACK THEOLOGY AS A VEHICLE FOR SEE
Greece and Rome – widely considered the progenitors of European civilization – took African ideas, claimed them as their own, projected them
