Category: Represent Our Resistance

November 3, 2008 The Obama blues dominate the front yards of Black and white homes and apartment buildings. Some yards have several Obama blues for emphasis. In the parking space shared by Dunkin Donuts, Burger King, and KFC, the pigeons have been struggling to maintain the space where they normally search for food left out…

– Martin Espada “In the Republic of Poetry” If Harriet Tubman were elected president of the United States, the Underground Railroad would become a modern-day institution in which the “wretched of the earth” here in the U.S. would be gathered together to rise from beneath the heels of their enslavers. These citizens would form local…

To educate the masses politically does not mean, cannot mean, making a political speech. What it means is to try, relentlessly and passionately, to teach the masses that everything depends on them; that if we stagnate it is their responsibility, and that if we go forward it is due to them too, that there is…

The amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a Rockefeller, and the amount of depravity that the accumulation of a fortune of such magnitude entails, are left out of the picture, and it is not always possible to make the people in general see this… Imperialism has been defeated in many partial…

…destiny had fitted itself to him, to his innocence, his pristine aptitude for platform drama and childlike heroic simplicity…had fitted itself to the swaggering of all his gestures and the forensic verbiage in which he stated calmly, with that frank innocence which he we call ‘of a child’ except that a human child is the…

-Martin Luther King, “Riverside Church Address: Beyond Vietnam” (April 4, 1967) The Ojibwa Correctional Facility. Yes, Rev. Edward Pinkney has been moved once again! Why? Well, the Reverend is still has too much influence! It seems the authorities in Michigan are scared of Rev. Pinkney. On Friday, September 5, 2008, Rev. Pinkney, community activist, was…

How many deaths are there world-wide each day due to poverty and malnutrition? About 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations. Poverty.com – Hunger and World Poverty. Every day, almost 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes – one child every five seconds. Bread for the World. Hunger…

But then it was precisely the amateur spy who was the greatest danger of all. The American Dream includes the lost and wondering Black young man on some depressed street in Detroit or Los Angeles or New Orleans. It includes those in run down apartments, in run down buildings who know the city negotiators and…