The question of where to search for the histories of Black people in the diaspora, is of paramount importance. “Freedom and unfreedom are not binaries.”

Even in the era of the “African-American” tag, there’s no shaking black – because James Brown made it cool to be black.

It appears that lies and/or false narratives are being used to rationalize this latest heinous act that may also result in another senseless war.

Had WikiLeaks existed in 2002, a patriotic officer like Chelsea Manning might have leaked the official intelligence reports and stopped a war.

Trump wants to “surge” against urban Black and brown Americans in the same way that the US surged against Iraq and Afghanistan.