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June 07, 2018

Sharp n’ Blunt

A Black American “Self-Defense Summit” is Desperately Needed!

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Black America needs a strategy, a blueprint for survival in an hostile land . . . we can’t simply have our fate lay in the hands of White America, hoping for empathy, sympathy and pity. Hell mofoing no! That’s no plan, that’s suicide via submission. We’re obligated by our creator to defend ours and ourselves, we’ve a right for defend ourselves.

I’ve been pounding-out my humble thoughts - a starving wordsmith, for a few different progressive and serious websites since 2006, I feel like a caramel version…

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Commentary

Remembering Kwamé Turé

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

was one of the three hundred “Freedom Riders” that were arrested “in Mississippi and Alabama during the Spring and Summer of 1961.” From that point on, Kwam� participated in every major campaign that emerged.

Kwam� Tur� (a.k.a. Stokely Carmichael) was born on June 29, 1941 in Trinidad. He moved to New York with his parents at a young age. We…

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Claudia Gonzales

Cartoon

Claudia Gonzales

By Eric Garcia Cartoonist/Artist

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