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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 [...]

The Decline of the Black Baseball Player

The decline in the number of Black Americans playing professional baseball in the Major League has been dramatic. What was once the most popular sport among African-Americans has now become a sport where very [...]

Unforgivable Blackness Jack Johnson Heavyweight Champ of the World: Boxing and Politics Part 1

Once upon a time the fine art of pugilism better known as boxing was the most popular sport in America. It was one of the oldest sport and was seen as the ultimate test of sportsmanship and manhood. What other [...]

Doing Business by the Good Book: Americas Largest Black Owned Business

If a poll were taken among the American people, blacks in particular to name the largest (in terms of revenue) black owned business in the United States you would get answers such as: Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo [...]

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 [...]

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