Category: Represent Our Resistance

-Paul Robeson, Here I Stand (Kindle edition) Here I Stand (regular edition) There are circles meant to maintain and to strengthen, but there are others to dismantle for they are artificial creations of misery and suffering. No doubt, the U.S. Left is in trouble. In the last 40 years, “criminal” and “terrorists” propaganda campaigns, FBI…

“I know how are it is for you to put food on your family.” “Rarely is the question asked: ‘Is our children learning?’” “I’ve been in the Bible every day since I’ve been the president.” Okay. We no longer have to listen to a U.S. President and wince. We no longer anticipate hearing the explicit…

Jackie Robinson appeared on the baseball field. Joe Louis appeared in the boxing ring, and Lana Turner came to South Africa by way of Stormy Weather, shown at the only movie theatre in the Black township. We “looked to this land with incredible admiration,” the Former Archbishop of Capetown, Desmond Tutu, told the audience on…

In Chicago, James “Hawk” Rasco decides its time to return home, to his native soil – Mississippi. Now, he was returning to Scott County with his family. Rasco’s nephew ran a nightclub – in dry Scott County. The nephew, along with other Black nightclub owners, paid the sheriff in order to sell alcohol. The sheriff…

In a world where governments operate under human rights laws, the naked child hugging the leg of a barely clad, homeless Ethiopian woman, would have a home, food, health care, school fees, and books. In a world operating under human rights laws, President Obama would have told his White House guest that he will not…

Informants. Informants. Informants. In the last few weeks, I have written on three cases, and in each, FBI and local law enforcement informants were key witnesses to the prosecution of innocent people. We have a system of justice depending on an industry of informants in uniforms or baggy pants, employed to spy on co-workers and…

They have been served pork. “We don’t eat pork,” Lata Duka tells me. At another prison in the Midwest, inmates are served food from bloated cans. I remember Rev. Edward Pinkney speaking about “butt-naked fish” served in a Michigan prison. Lata Duka tells me the food is bad where her three sons, Dritan, 30, Shain,…

What does it mean to “normalize” relations with the U.S.? What does “normalize” mean? If Raul Castro is described as being “belligerent” to Barrack Obama, then what does that mean? Who is speaking? The day came and many of us, scattered across the country, waited. On this day, June 26, 2008, Rev. Edward Pinkney would…