Jamala Rogers

Our movement must raise the bar and set the standard by valuing truth in our own politics and conduct. “You’re entitled to your own opinions. You’re not entitled to your own facts.” These lines are generally attributed to Daniel Patrick Moynihan and frequently get tossed about when one entity wants to shed light on another…

At the top of the apex of problems with the system are professional criminals who supposedly are ridding our communities of crime and criminals. Reggie Clemons is on Missouri’s death row for the now infamous Chain of Rocks Bridge case where two young white girls, Julie and Robin Kerry, were allegedly raped and thrown off…

Dr. Aaronnette White, my dear friend and sister-in-struggle, recently died of an aneurism; she was only 51 years old. A rape survivor and a respected psychology professor, she was a fierce warrior for the reproductive rights of women, particularly African American women. Attacks on women – whatever form they take– will not be tolerated. During…

These people are not just stupid, insensitive or misguided; they are dangerous to all living things. You gotta’ give them their props. The Right has been diligently and systematically working on their draconian strategy for over 30 years. Setbacks occur but it presses on. Occasionally, it will boldly announce its moves as if it knows…

Bill Fletcher, a long-time friend of Manning�s, chose to take on the book�s detractors following the book�s release, a necessary task in order to put the criticisms in their proper perspective. But as important, in his article published in BlackCommentator.com following Manning�s death, Bill shared a discussion with him about how to use the book…

How many people will we be: I am Amadou Diallo! I am Oscar Grant! I am Troy Davis! I am Trayvon Martin! I am fill-in-the-blank! By now, our communities should be crystal clear on the historic and lethal patterns of racial profiling and violence by the criminal justice system. We seem to be less clear…

A couple of weeks ago, David Love penned an article �Reggie Clemons is Troy Davis.� The article highlighted the troubling doubts in the cases of Troy Davis and Reggie Clemons. Love had no idea that I�ve been working on the Clemons� case for twenty years (he does now since we talked about it!). The case…

What was inside a black, working class kid in the heat of a segregated society that made him or her think they could fly a plane? There were dozens of these young people whose dreams of flying took them to Tuskegee, AL where an experiment to prove that black people lacked the courage to fight…

The second anniversary of the earthquake that shook the island of Haiti has come and gone. While the images of destruction dim, the unanswered questions about recovery and reconstruction must remain loud and constant. The 7.0-magnitude quake created yet another set back for a people who seem to be perpetual victims of natural and man-made…