History & Politics

#Black Lives Matter: From Ferguson to the United Nations – Lengthening the Battlefield

When the parents of the slain Ferguson, MO teenager Michael Brown along with their advisors went before the United Nations Human Rights [...]

Geo Politics: Oil Wars with Russia and the Collapse of Shale

Who would have thought that the price of gasoline would be so low in December 2014. As of this writing oil prices are around $57 a barrel; whereas in August of 2013 it was over $100 a barrel. This time [...]

#Black Lives Matter: Meritorious Manumission and the Anatomy of a Sell Out

The sleeping giant has re-awakened in black America and it is very inspiring to see. From the time the nation’s founding fathers went to war with Britain to maintain slavery in the colonies (not [...]

The Cross and the Lynching Tree: The Character Assasination of Bill Cosby

It is truly tragic to watch the media feeding frenzy around the allegations against Bill Cosby. In America the law says that a person is presumed innocent until proven guilty; yet the media continues [...]

#Black Lives Matter: Politics Make Strange Bedfellows

The old cliché that out of tragedy can come something positive is on grand display in the wake of non-indictments in both the Michael Brown and Eric Garner [...]

Who Really Killed Michael Brown and Eric Garner? Part 1

Like most I found myself dumbfounded, upset, frustrated and angry but not surprised at the lack of indictments in both the Michael Brown case and Eric Garner case in Ferguson, MO and New York respectively. [...]

John Henrik Clarke: The Essential Selfishness of Survival

I am often reminded by something I heard the late great historian and Pan Africanist John Henrik Clarke say that informs allot of my independent research to this day. He was speaking about how he as a young [...]

Scholar as Warrior: Cheikh Anta Diop and the African Origins of Civilization

While it is fashionable to see great public leaders such as W.E.B. Dubois, Marcus Garvey, Dr. King, Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, Adam Clayton Powell and others as having been on the front lines engaged in war [...]

The Price of the Ticket: Black Politics 2014

There is the old saying in politics that “there are no permanent friends and no permanent enemies; only permanent interest.” Black Americans have often learned this lesson the hard way, and in many ways [...]

What Killed Dr. Martin Luther King?

“Like any man I would like to live a long life; longevity has its place. But I’m really not concerned about that now because I just want to do Gods will. And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And [...]

Race and Class in 2014

I am often reminded by the saying that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Nowhere is this saying more true and applicable than in the United States of America. Throughout human history when [...]

Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) – Revisited

Kwame Ture AKA Stokely Carmichael may have been the premier political thinker of his generation; however his cogent analysis of racism and what oppressed, aggrieved and disenfranchised people must do have [...]