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Black Prophetic Fire: Book Review *****

It is safe to say that Dr. Cornell West is a brilliant man. There are learned men, men acquainted with facts, men with high degrees of education, but brilliance and genius represent higher order cognitive [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]