HAWK (J. D. Jackson)

His life-long commitment to study focused primarily on the boundless history of his Ancestors and their descendants – the world’s first and oldest people and the people from whom all other people and civilization came – African (Black) people. By so doing, he wisely and dutifully fulfilled many of the precepts that were spelled out…

Meanwhile in my music, my plays, my films I want to carry always this central idea: to be African. Multitudes of men have died for less worthy ideals; it is even more eminently worth living for. Brothers and Sisters, without a doubt, those are my sentiments exactly. In fact, I couple them with the poignant…

Maybe it’s just me. But does it seem to you like everybody wants to be a gangsta, a thug, or a pimp? Well, it does to me. And it makes me wonder if the very people, both male and female, who want to be those things truly know that those things are. And just why…

The current issue is always free to everyone Once, there proudly strode down the sacred streets of Harlem, three brilliant, black brothers. Slightly different in age and height and hue, clearly they could not claim the same biological father but they both claimed, clung to, and served the same spiritual mother. It was that “mother”…

(With minor revisions, this was previously printed in HAWK’s self-published 1996 book Hawkish Wisdom. With the recent “sell” of formerly long-time, Black-owned publications and businesses to those who historically have not had the African World Family’s best interest at hand, I believe that the revival of this article is necessary.) In lieu of the Million…

During Mother’s Day week, the world’s one billion plus African (Black) people realize that they have at least one thing in common. If nothing else, they all recognize the fact that the worse thing that anyone could ever do is to say or do something bad about or to their “Momma.” Nothing seems to spark…

A long-time percolating idea, several years, essentially, this is a salute to teachers. To me, it is a must to write it, especially after one of the worse years ever in the classroom, due to extremely poor administrative leadership and unbelievably out of control “students,” though small in number. The cup of human history runneth…

In lieu of the ever-increasing controversy surrounding former talk show host Don Imus’ racist, more so than sexist, remarks about many members of the Rutgers University women’s basketball team, (remember: he did not say, “kinky-headed (white) and nappy-headed (black) h-es”), he said, “nappy-headed h-es”—just black females. I think it is extremely important that the life…