The World Turned Upside Down

A flake of snow within a storm A new way waiting to be born In a world with need of change A touch of love in fear…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: “Black Orchid” by Stevie Wonder”

“For while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There…… Read more “Playing The Long Game”

Source: News Junkie Post Let us not be naive. If President Trump recently called on his adoring followers to “liberate” states like Michigan, Virginia, Maryland, and Minnesota,…… Read more “Trump’s Zealots: White Supremacists and Evangelicals Gearing up for a New Civil War? by Gilbert Mercier”

Source: Yes! I rewound the video of his killing. Each time I viewed it, I was drawn first to the young Black jogger’s seemingly carefree stride, which…… Read more “Videos of Black People’s Killings Are Sacred—So Stop Sharing Them by Allissa V. Richardson”

Source: Radical Eyes for Equity   I was born in 1961, after Brown v. Board but before the Civil Rights Act. My childhood in the upstate of…… Read more “All White People Must Confront How the System Only Works in Total Whiteness by P. L. Thomas”

Source: City Lab Conventional wisdom says that place matters more for people who live in distressed neighborhoods—places with low median incomes and not a lot of opportunity.…… Read more “Unpacking the Power of Privileged Neighborhoods by Tanvi Misra”

Source: Quartz Wildly inaccurate facts and spurious arguments are unavoidable features of social media. Yet no matter how infuriatingly wrong someone is, or just how much counter-evidence…… Read more “John Stuart Mill On The Pointlessness of Rational Arguments by Olivia Goldhill”

(We can do this!!)  

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: “Harlem” by Langston Hughes”

Black Rage Founded on 2/3 a person Rapings and beatings, suffering worsens Black human packages tied up in strings Black Rage comes from all these types of…… Read more “Black Rage”

Source: Radical Eyes for Equity The public career and life of Malcolm X are fraught with contradictions and controversy—often complicated by the Nation of Islam and its discredited…… Read more ““History proves that the white man is a devil” by P.L. Thomas”

“There are literally two Americas. One America is beautiful for situation. And in a sense this America is overflowing with the milk of prosperity and the honey…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: “I Can’t Breathe” by (unknown)”

The point I am trying to make here is a simple and obvious one, or would be in a society not burdened with a two-pronged ideology of…… Read more “Aiming Missiles at Viruses: a Plea for Sanity in a Time of Plague by Hugh Iglarsh”

They don’t steal votes to steal elections. They steal votes to steal the money. If you can steal an election, you’ve stolen the keys to the treasury…… Read more “Greg Palast & David Cay Johnston: How Trump Stole 2020 — A Warning!”

The Universe in Verse 2019: full show from Maria Popova on Vimeo. Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. Thanks to Maria Popova…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: The Universe in Verse 2019”

  LISTEN: Chauncey DeVega & Jason Stanley   Jason Stanley is a professor of philosophy at Yale University and author of the bestselling books How Fascism Works:…… Read more “In Conversation: Chauncey DeVega & Jason Stanley Talk of How Donald Trump is Using the Pandemic to Destroy Every Aspect of American Democracy”

    Source: The Atlantic  Six weeks ago, Ahmaud Arbery went out and never came home. Gregory and Travis McMichael, who saw Arbery running through their neighborhood…… Read more “The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying by Adam Serwer”

They sailed out centuries ago to tame the godless savages and teach them how to die by gunfire instead of spears like proper Christian gentlemen. They brought…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: “Civilized” by Caitlin Johnston”

The U.S. already has over one million confirmed cases of Covid-19 and tens of thousands of deaths. Victims of the disease are disproportionately black and working class.…… Read more “Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr.: Covid-19 Demands a National Reckoning”

  This film presents an alternative outlook of contemporary society, in particular UK & US, however parallels can be made to nearly every society that exists today.…… Read more “Our System.Our Structure.Our Illusion”

Margaret Kimberley is an Editor and Senior Columnist at the Black Agenda Report, which publishes news, commentary and analysis from the black left. She is author of…… Read more “Margaret Kimberley: The Persistence of White Supremacy in the US”

Source:News Junkie Post As the global COVID-19 crisis builds up its incredible momentum, for which an apex is still months to come, the mainstream media and so-called…… Read more “COVID-19: Seeds of Revolution Grown on Capitalism’s Corpse? by Gilbert Mercier”