“In terms of the front pages of major newspapers in this country, police brutality has not been covered to the degree it was in the aftermath of the killing of Michael Brown and Eric Garner and others,” said Larry Hamm, chairman of the People’s Organization for Progress (POP), in Newark, New Jersey. POP, which was founded 37 years ago, last week held its 70th weekly protest against police brutality. “We have to keep demonstrating, we have to keep fighting, in order to keep public attention on the issue,” said Hamm.
US presidents range from very bad to less bad, but none were “good” for Black people – including the first Black one.
A Leni Riefenstahl film Written by Dr. Goebbels Produced by the DNC— Set in summer in Milwaukee: “Return of the $electable Dead.” A
Lerone Bennett’s de-colonized perspective was ultimately drowned out by the same capitalist forces that kept him alive in the first place.
Black studies is a conceptual movement that is trying to catch up to it’s more sensual and less formal cousin, black music.
Spending time in worlds of the past opens a window on how things changed, or stubbornly remained unchanged.
