Category: Represent Our Resistance

“This case against eight former Panthers and Panther supporters charged with the murder of a San Francisco policeman in 1971 was thrown out of court in 1975 because the evidence used by the prosecution was obtained by torture,” writes Jacobs. Of course, Jacobs injects, if “the purpose of torture is something other than the procurement…

Seventy-five percent of the American population opposes the kingdom of corporatization and militarization King George and Darth Vader have established here and around the world, yet they are frozen in the state of fear. As a result, even some of these seventy-five percent of the American public opposed to this current administration, still believe that,…

I believe the sponsors and supporters of the Youth PROMISE Act want to see solutions to the imprisonment of our children. But I have to ask: Is there an advantage for law enforcement and juvenile courts to work to save the lives of our children? That is, why would the police and courts want to…

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member Lenore Jean Daniels, PhD, has been a writer, for over thirty years of commentary, resistance criticism and cultural theory, and short stories with a Marxist sensibility to the impact of cultural narrative violence and its antithesis, resistance narratives. With entrenched dedication to justice and equality, she has served as a coordinator…

That was forty-four years old. It is not fire hoses our children face, but they do face unfair punishment in the public schools and longer sentences for non-violent crimes. Our children face poverty and unemployment. Despite voting rights (slowly eroding away with the violent practice of caging and plain thievery of votes) and hate crime…

Our Ancestors — those Africans kidnapped, purchased, shipped, and enslaved in the Americas, who permitted this country, in particular, to flex its industrial muscles. The labor, ingenuity, creativity, suffering, and death of my ancestors contributed greatly to the imperialist development of this nation. Four hundred years of people unfree, people exploited, brutalized, raped, lynched —…

I don’t remember the entertainment that day. At successive Black Expos I would see Aretha Franklin and Stevie Wonder. One time, the Jackson Five would share the backstage with us, the Operation Breadbasket Choir, for about three minutes. But on this first day, I remember the words spoken with such conviction by activist ministers, including…

Black literature courses, in particular, became sites of fierce counter resistance on the part of white students, many of whom demanded to be allowed to disassociate the oppression (or that ugly feeling they felt within before they turned away from the texts or the Black teacher reading passages) and focus, instead, on a temporary and…

“…If anything I do, in the way of writing novels or whatever I write, isn’t about the village or the community or about you, then it isn’t about anything. I am not interested in indulging myself in some private exercise of my imagination…which is to say yes, the work must be political…” – Toni Morrison…