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JUSTICE FOR RENISHA:From No Arrest to a Guilty Verdict
When 19-year-old Renisha McBride was shot in the face after knocking on a White man’s door in suburban Detroit, I...
When 19-year-old Renisha McBride was shot in the face after knocking on a White man’s door in suburban Detroit, I...
My fighter of a father survived a massive stroke but lost his life to a heart attack. He was in his...
This September my baby girl Isoke enters the eleventh grade. This isn’t about my utter shock at the light speed...
This morning“Baby” Chris Lighty was found dead outside his Riverdale, Bronx apartment from an apparent self-inflicted gun wound. The news...
For many of us, Nina Simone is nothing less than a goddess. Her music informs our lives (see: “Wild is...
Last week the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement released an exhaustively researched study, “The Report on the Extrajudicial Killing of Black People,” that proved that...
Last year, the suicide of 15-year-old Siwe Monsanto inspired poet and mental health advocate Bassey Ikpi to begin the Siwe...
Since she was an infant, my daughter Isoke has been traveling. During her first year, I moved from Detroit to...
Today, former Black Panther Mumia Abu Jamal turns 58. Thirty of those years were spent on Death Row for the...
The first time I heard Estelle’s voice, I was struck by her decisions; she had the intelligent phrasing of a...