Dr. Martin Kilson, PhD

“…[The] history of the Black Panther Party, and of revolutionaries such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King ensured that revolutionary ideas in society had a firm base. In this sense, I would differ with those journalists who had declared the death of revolutionary traditions in the United States.” (p. 241) Here I think Campbell…

As I sit at my Laptop PC the day after the November 4th Election to pen reflections on Senator Barack Obama’s historic election victory, several fundamental thoughts about the deeper meaning and significance of the results of the Election come to mind. First, that with Barack Obama’s personal election victory he enters the premier position…

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member Martin Kilson, PhD hails from an African Methodist background and clergy: From a great-great grandfather who founded an African Methodist Episcopal church in Maryland in the 1840s; from a great-grandfather AME clergyman; from a Civil War veteran great-grandfather who founded an African Union Methodist Protestant church in Pennsylvania in 1885; and…

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member Martin Kilson, PhD hails from an African Methodist background and clergy: From a great-great grandfather who founded an African Methodist Episcopal church in Maryland in the 1840s; from a great-grandfather AME clergyman; from a Civil War veteran great-grandfather who founded an African Union Methodist Protestant church in Pennsylvania in 1885; and…

There is, I suggest, no way to misconstrue the Obama campaign’s 2 to 1 electoral victory in the Wisconsin primary as anything but a significant development. One yardstick not yet mentioned in this article for measuring this significance was reported in exit polls. Namely: “That two-thirds of [Wisconsin] voters believed that Obama would be a…

The first test of the Clinton campaign’s upbeat public face came on Tuesday, February 19th, in the Wisconsin primary. Two days before the Wisconsin vote on February 17th, the Bloomerg News agency reported rather ominous news in regard to Hillary Clinton’s position in the large states of Wisconsin and Texas. That “Barack Obama picked up…

Schedule Change The current issue is always free to everyone INTRODUCTORY The issue of the character of African-American group will and identity here in the early years of the 21st century has recently received major attention through two research studies produced by the Pew Charitable Trusts and the related Pew Research Center, located in Philadelphia…