"I’m describing crimes against humanity,” said Dr Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, a leader of the fight to save Moses Macedonia African Cemetery from further destruction by developers. The older section of the cemetery was “looted” of artifacts, while the post-Emancipation section has been paved over for a parking lot. Bethesda, a suburb of Washington, DC, and one of the richest localities in the nation, wants to obliterate evidence of its past as a “slave breeding” state where young Black girls were subjected to “sexual torture,” said Dr. Coleman-Adebayo, a founder of the No Fear Coalition.
The Black Power Matters March directs us to fight against colonialism, for Black Community Control of the Police, and for a Black Agenda for Self-Determination.
This week the Democratic Party presidential ticket was on your minds.
The long tradition of radical black critique in popular forms of expression gives us material on which to model our re-imagining of the world.
The mulatta serves as a strategy of containment of Blackness through logics of racial management.
The fierce fighter against slavery defeated European armies but died in a cold French prison.
