[Editor’s Note: The following is in reference to the case of Troy Davis, an unfairly convicted human being who is scheduled to be executed in two weeks… If you’re not familiar with the story, Troy Davis was convicted of murdering…
[Editor’s Note: It is Labor Day — people died so you could have this day off; for the right to bargain collectively, for the 40-hour week, and paid vacations. People died so that you could enjoy workplace safety and work while…
The law is meant to be my servant and not my master, still less my torturer and my murderer.– James Baldwin, The Nation, 7/11/66 More than 40 years later, I can still remember the incident as if it happened yesterday.…
I am playing the game I suppose, out of habits learned long ago, but I have been in these waters far longer than even my tired eyes could tell you. Okay, so I’m going to start out by copping to…
I am playing the game I suppose,out of habitslearned long ago,but I have been in these watersfar longer thaneven my tired eyes could tell you. Okay, so I’m going to start out by copping to the fact that I’m not…
Today is the Puerto Rican Day Parade. Contrary to what you may (or may not) have heard, the parade isn’t a rape fest, or an organized crime spree. The following was posted by a Boricua* for the NY Post several…
You know you’re in trouble when upstate New York voters (some who make the hillbilly characters from the film Deliverance seem sophisticated by comparison) join in kicking a conservative politician to the curb — in one of the most conservative…
[Editors Note: I am not the staunchest Obama supporter, in fact I believe there are legitimate critiques of his policies — especially his (mostly wrong-headed conservative) economic policy decisions. However, much of the right-wing criticism of Obama is fueled by…
White America remains unable to believe that Black America’s grievances are real; they are unable to believe this because they cannot face what this fact says about themselves and their country. — James Baldwin C. Wright Mills spoke of racism…
The following is what I remember many years ago when I asked the question… * * * -=[ How Does it Feel? ]=- So quiet now.Soften yourself and listen.Connected and motionless. To the symphonic pulsing of our blood,the crash of…