The World Turned Upside Down

    (This piece was written in 2016 but the truths & revelations are disturbingly illuminating)   The annus horribilis of 2016 is finally drawing to a…… Read more “The Collapse of Meaning in a Post-Truth World by Chi Luu”

This is Hell! · On surrogate divinity: Capitalism between you and God. Writer Eugene McCarraher explains how the logic of capitalism swallowed our lives, and calls of…… Read more “On Surrogate Divinity: Capitalism Between You and God”

“After I became president, I one day requested some members of my close protection to stroll with me in the city to have lunch at one of…… Read more “A Message for Our Restless Times”

KEEP AMERICA PURE WITH LIBERTY PAINTS. (Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison, p. 196) What do white folk want? Rigid accountability for other people. License for “me” (the white view…… Read more “What White Folk Want by P.L. Thomas”

Toni Morrison, Nobel laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner, and peerless American author – considered one of the finest novelists the US has ever produced – had the demeanor…… Read more “Musings”

Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: “Let America Be America Again” by Langston Hughes”

Shocking to see a brainwashing operation in action that millions will succumb to. Nearly 150 years ago, Nietzsche declared “God is dead,” killed off by the scientific…… Read more “Musings”

Richard Rothstein, Author, Distinguished Fellow, Economic Policy Institute discusses “The Color of Law: Why Our Cities are Still Segregated.” Racial segregation characterizes every metropolitan area in the…… Read more “The Segregation Myth: Richard Rothstein Debunks an American Lie”

‘They are saying it as plainly as they can and yet we are still having a debate in this country about what this stuff means’ — Jeffrey…… Read more “Myths About Confederate Statues with Jeffery Robinson”

(You can skip to the 6:40 mark to get right into this brilliant discussion of a must-read book) “In the midst of an ugly Trump regime and…… Read more “Eddie Glaude & Cornel West Discuss “Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America And Its Urgent Lessons For Our Own””

What could make someone confess to the murder of their own mother? The malevolent power of a police department & a justice system bent on criminalizing a…… Read more “Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions – Huwe Burton’s Fight for Justice”

Source: Learning Mind If you don’t pay close attention, you will miss the truth of our society today. Things aren’t what they seem. I talk quite a…… Read more “The Raw Reality of Today’s Society by Sherrie Hurd”

Cactus Valley, St. Lucia by Markus Welter

Source: Code Switch More than 90% of U.S. churches were closed at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. But since mid-April, mostly white faith leaders have pushed…… Read more “Jesus Was Divisive: A Black Pastor’s Message To White Christians by Isabella Rosario”

Source: Boston Review In the photograph Branded Head (2003), the shape of a black man’s clean-shaven head gracefully curves against a plain white background. The subject’s face—and…… Read more “Black Masculinity Under Racial Capitalism by Jordanna Matlon”

Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at CUNY Graduate Center. A co-founder of…… Read more “Geographies of Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore”

Source: News Junkie Post The flow of knowledge and information is commonly considered the main vector of humanity’s progress through history. One would think that in our…… Read more “The Surrealism of the Information War by Gilbert Mercier”

Source: NBC NEWS (AU) The research defines the D-factor as: “The general tendency to maximize one’s individual utility — disregarding, accepting, or malevolently provoking disutility for others…… Read more “The Dark Triad (..think of Trump & his wrecking crew…)”

LISTEN: Chauncey DeVega & Mike Davis Mike Davis is a historian, political activist, and writer. He is the author of many books includingCity of Quartz, Buda’s Wagon,…… Read more “In Conversation: Chauncey DeVega & Mike Davis – COV-19 As The First of Many Disasters That Will Change The World As We Know It”

I was wondering if I could shape this passion Just as I wanted in solid fire. I was wondering if the strange combustion of my days The…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: “Poems of Shape and Motion” by Linton Kwesi Johnson”

Source: Desultory Heroics ‘And the Old Ones say: look outward seriously look inward intently look outward carefully look inward diligently look outward respectfully look inward humbly’ –Jack…… Read more “Time Now to Get Back to Ourselves? by Kingsley L. Dennis”

Source: The Village Voice (This was written in 1991 but tragically, still applicable in 2020) American culture seems to lack two ele­ments basic to race relations: a…… Read more “On Black Rage by Cornel West”

LISTEN : Chauncey DeVega & Rev. William Barber Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is the President & Senior Lecturer of Repairers of the Breach and Co-Chair of…… Read more “In Conversation: Chauncey DeVega & Rev. William Barber II – America’s Moral Reckoning in the Absurdism of the Trump Age”

Have you ever wondered what your favorite intellectual & cultural heroes read? What other artists/intellectuals shaped & inspired them to be the persons they became? I’ve always…… Read more “What Are Your Favorite Writers/Artists Reading?”

Source: Undark The earliest fossilized footprints of a human being were found at a saltwater lagoon in South Africa. They came from a woman some 117,000 years…… Read more “Book Review: The Surprising Science of Walking”

WE WANT TO LOVE OURSELVES FREELY… Unfettered images of our grandmothers In our dreams WE WANT to praise our own God and WE WANT to see his…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: “What We Want” by Ras Baraka”

Khalil Gibran Muhammad is a professor of history, race and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Suzanne Young Murray professor at the Radcliffe Institute…… Read more “Khalil Gibran Muhammad on the Racist History of Police in U.S.”