Been working all day trying to come up with a word to describe how I feel, now that The People’s March honoring Dr. King and his “I have a dream” speech is done. I’ve come up with several actually. However the one that sticks out is “empty.” It’s done, we marched, we shouted, we sang, […]
I get the feeling that there’s a competition between the Carolinas. Given recent legislation set to disenfranchise minority voters in North Carolina — arguably the most progressive state in the south — the Tar Heel state has been giving its neighbor to its south a run for their money. But as racist fuckery would have […]
I know a young black male. He’s a teenager in high school, about to enter his senior year when school starts in a few weeks. He makes good grades, and he’s an excellent gamer. He has no kids out of wedlock and never been in legal trouble before. I know this young man, and I […]
With champions of racial equality like Rush Limbaugh around, who needs a conversation on race? In the wake of the George Zimmerman Not Guilty verdict, all week I’ve heard it mentioned that we’re in need of a national conversation on race. As one who absolutely champions for freedom, justice, and equality I applaud and urge […]
Florida teenager Rachel Jeantel— controversial witness for the prosecution and the last person on the phone with Trayvon Martin just before he was killed—appeared on Piers Morgan Live Monday night, in a segment that followed anonymous juror B37’s obscured sniveling on Anderson Cooper 360, on CNN. Rachel‘s testimony and disposition on the stand during the […]
For those of us interested in freedom, justice, and equality, the past week has been somewhat of a rollercoaster ride. With landmark Supreme Court decisions handed down on Affirmative Action, the Voting Rights Act, and Marriage Equality, to say that it has been exhausting would be putting it mildly. Add to said exhaustion the fascination […]
“On this day on June 17th, 1876 Crazy Horse and Knife Chief defeated General George Crook in the Rosebud River in what is now Montana. Combined forces of Cheyennes and Lakota Warriors stopped and drove General Crook and his Crow and Shoshone Scouts and sent them back to the south. Crazy Horse made 3 suicide […]
Editor’s Note: The following post was written by Hip Hop scholar, activist, and journalist Davey D. It was was originally posted at Davey D’s Hip Hop Corner, and it’s an honor to have it posted with permission here at TIOMAR. Michelle Obama gave a speech over the weekend at Bowie State saying that too many Black kids […]
My man W. Kamau Bell is back on FX for a second season of his show “Totally Biased.” I really dig this cat and the work he puts in as a board member of Applied Research Center — they’re responsible for bringing us the site colorlines.com. Anyway, this week on his show he took to […]
Memphis Neighborhoods Make Nation’s Most Dangerous List Thanks to a break from the notorious April showers, this afternoon, for the first time since late last fall my daughters spent some time playing in our backyard. As weather in the mid-south would have it, today was pretty mild. My kids playing in the yard is something […]
Okay, teachable moment aside, the truth is that in America much to the disadvantage of dark-skinned people, the Muslim religion is used to denote one’s race. Why? Because, well, Jesus was a Jew and of course everybody knows that Jesus was a white man, right? Never mind the fact that both religions are spinoffs from […]
I have been having so much thoughts about Veronica Brown, it has been unsettling. With the adoptive couple now suing the biological father for half a million dollars on top of taking his daughter away from him. Adding insult to injury. My mom said it goes to show, the government still doesn’t care about us. […]
I checked out an article from Salon where the CEO of one of the largest insurance companies AIG Robert Benmosche made a highly absurd, droll and all-around stupid comment about its government funded bonuses. Those bonuses were awarded to keep the insurance giant from sinking despite its questionable and morally criminal business practices in which […]
This was the week the new fall season of television got underway. Did you catch The Ted Cruz Show this week? Limited production values. Lousy acting. Boring script. If there ever was a program that deserved cancellation before the debut, Senator Cruz’s phony filibuster to defund Obamacare was definitely it. Terrible Ted hopes he call […]
Raise your hand if when you heard about the terrorist hostage-taking situation in Kenya you thought, “They’re malls in Africa?” Well, apparently the condiment has come a long way since monkeys taught Tarzan how to speak. But of course you knew that, right? Of course you did. The only thing you don’t know about Africa […]
Craig Cobb is a white supremacist who has been recently purchasing land in a small North Dakota town called Leith. His plan is to transform the tiny town of twenty-four residents into a haven of white supremacy; and he plans to do so by first gaining political power. When I first came across this story […]
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