Through his interviews and writings, Malcolm X often communicated his early-life desire to become an attorney. No one can deny that Malcolm X, history’s most potent advocate, would have been an incredible attorney. Before his life was taken, his youthful ambitions were snuffed out by a racist school system. He described the incident that dashed […]
Read the rest of this entry »What Is Weathering? Is It An Argument For Reparations In Realtime?
The January 2019 edition of National Geographic states that “weathering” is “a concept developed by University of Michigan professor of public health Arline Geronimus that suggests the health of African Americans deteriorates earlier than that of whites because of the cumulative effects of racism and bias.” Tweet
Read the rest of this entry »Yusuf Hawkins: Never Forget
Tuesday would have been Yusuf Kirriem Hawkins 46th birthday. The Brooklynite was viciously murdered in his own hometown almost 30 years ago when a quest to purchase a used car led him to a predominately white part of Brooklyn. 16-year old Yusuf Hawkins and three friends ventured into Bensonhurst on a summer’s night in 1989 […]
Read the rest of this entry »Starbucks’ Bottomline Unbothered After Racist Philadelphia Debacle
“For that period that the protest and the incident occurred in Philadelphia, now certainly those stores were impacted for a brief period. But it’s still early days, and we don’t have all of the information on demographics. But certainly if I look nationally, and I look at regions across the United States, there’s not been […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Racist Origins Of The Ice Cream Truck Song
The musical tune that plays from most local ice cream trucks is actually the melody of a 1916 song released by Columbia Records entitled, “Ni**er Love A Watermelon HA! HA! HA!” Tweet
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