Larry Pinkney

“It is the power of the people and the people only to whom we will be thankful, and in whom our faith rests for the future.” – Huey P. Newton In these perilous times of corporate media and government manipulated false “hope” and fake “change” gimmickry – combined with the dangerous messianic illusions on the…

Worse than those who deprecate the ongoing freedom and justice struggle are those who pretend to support it but who actually seek to cynically use it for personal gain. We must always remember what John Brown, Denmark Vessy, Harriet Tubman, Malcolm X, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., George Jackson, Huey P. Newton, and so…

The revolutionary struggle for freedom and justice may not be televised but it will most definitely be organized, and it will continue. The corporate media will ignore and/or seek to distort and denigrate this struggle, but then that has been and continues to be the role of the media. We don’t need to be televised…

The so-called democracy of the powerful U.S. elite continues to live up to its legacy of hypocrisy and deceit. Now that the spectacle of the Barack Obama coronation as the “American” Empire’s first African-American emperor has run its course, and many, many millions of dollars have been spent on self-adulation by the power elite of…

It’s easy to sit back and expect things to simply happen by osmosis. Yet, The Black Commentator (BC) does not exist by mere osmosis. We exist and publish thanks to the love, care, and contributions of our readers. NOW is the time to step forward and send your dollars to BC. We will not survive…

The peace and security of the “American” people and indeed the entire world will never be a reality until the root causes of so-called terrorism are honestly and forthrightly addressed. The state-sponsored terrorism of Israel, overwhelmingly supported by the U.S., against the people of Gaza virtually guarantees that individual and/or collective retaliatory acts of terrorism…

While the pro-apartheid, Zionist Barack Obama remained deafeningly silent about the intensified Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, one lone Black American heroine risked her life and limb to engage in a peaceful fact-finding mission, attempting also to deliver desperately needed medical supplies to the people of Gaza. That woman is, of course, former U.S.…

Greed comes in all colors and perhaps nowhere is this more apparent than in the area of “landlord”/property owners and the concomitant plight of apartment unit tenants. This is being witnessed throughout the United States, including in the state of Minnesota, which unfortunately is in addition to being “the land of 10,000 lakes,” is rapidly…

The only change that took place in this nation on November 4, 2008 was chump change, which was no change at all. Symbolic change does not feed, clothe, house or provide people health care. Systemically, the U.S. Empire is corrupt and irreparably flawed, particularly as it affects the vast majority of Black, Brown, Red, Yellow,…