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When 19-year-old Renisha McBride was shot in the face after knocking on a White man’s…
My fighter of a father survived a massive stroke but lost his life to a heart…
This September my baby girl Isoke enters the eleventh grade. This isn’t about my utter…
This morning“Baby” Chris Lighty was found dead outside his Riverdale, Bronx apartment from an apparent…
For many of us, Nina Simone is nothing less than a goddess. Her music informs…
Last week the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement released an exhaustively researched study, “The Report on the Extrajudicial…
Last year, the suicide of 15-year-old Siwe Monsanto inspired poet and mental health advocate Bassey…
Since she was an infant, my daughter Isoke has been traveling. During her first year,…
Today, former Black Panther Mumia Abu Jamal turns 58. Thirty of those years were spent…
The first time I heard Estelle’s voice, I was struck by her decisions; she had…