Jamala Rogers

Cookie Thornton has long standing grievances with the city of K-wood. They have mitigated the situation (which has been parroted by the local and national press) by saying that it was all about parking tickets for his fleet of trucks. While parking ticket fines and court costs had skyrocketed to tens of thousands of dollars,…

The current issue is always free to everyone Gloria Terrell was my 11th grade English teacher. Ms. Terrell was one of my favorite teachers. I thought about her as I experienced Othello at the Black Rep recently. Ms. Terrell was more than an English teacher. In her other life, she also performed in a small…

The current issue is always free to everyone Remember when the US government and other misguided folks used to scream about state-controlled media in other countries? Isn’t it a pity, they would say, that the government controls all the media. While we were pointing at China, the Soviet Union and other countries, corporate media was…

The current issue is always free to everyone Jena got its wake-up call last week when thousands converged on the small Louisiana town of about 3,000 in support of the Jena 6. The case of the Jena 6 has taken the country by storm and has struck a particular chord with black youth across the…

The current issue is always free to everyone Thirty-five years ago, the covers were pulled off the Tuskegee syphilis experiment conducted by the Macon County Public Health Service (PHS). The 40-year experiment allegedly was set up to study the impact of untreated syphilis on some 600 black men, about 200 in a control group, beginning…

Summer is always a time of longing for me, as I see the presence of black family reunions in St. Louis. You can ride through Forest Park or Tower Grove Park on any given summer day and observe banners with the family name hung proudly or recognize a sea of same-colored shirts buzzing around a…

When I read Bill Fletcher’s BC article last month on the rape of his friend, it was like déjà vu. “My Friend was Raped” underscored an all-too familiar response to sexual victimization of Black women by Black men, that of silent suffering. I had just heard an eerily similar story chronicled in “NO! The Rape…

To win any thing means that there’s some identifiable and achievable goal. For the war in Iraq, the US has neither. The Bush administration’s moving goals for the war have hit a brick wall. First the goal was to get weapons of mass destruction. When no such was found, then it was to stop the…