Dr Lumumba is always on point in his speeches. His brutal honesty is the bitter tonic that must be swallowed if Africa is to rid itself of…… Read more “Prof PLO Lumumba – Why China keeps Running To Africa”

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(Note: Trump’s fat butt was kicked out, but Trumpism is still bubbling venomously below the surface….stay aware & RESIST the Darkness with love & courage) WATCH DOCUMENTARY:…… Read more “The Great White Hoax: Racism, Divide-and-Conquer, and the Politics of Trumpism”

Source: Rolling Stone A thousand years from now, when some vaguely human-like machine digs through the ashes of the Twenty-First century and tries to figure out what…… Read more “Can Civilization Survive What’s Coming? by Jeff Goodell”

  And I come by here to say that America, too, is going to hell if she doesn’t use her wealth. If America does not use her…… Read more “Why America May Go To Hell by Martin Luther King Jr.”

We are living through strange days. Across Britain, Europe and America societies have become split and polarised. There is anger at the inequality and the ever growing…… Read more “Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World”

Source: The Baffler One of the immediate casualties of Trump’s rise to power, or so we were constantly told, was the truth. Scores of pundits appeared on…… Read more “Masters of Reality (..the mania of white truth) by Tope Folarin”

My mother is three years younger than Nakba.But she doesn’t believe in great powers.Twice a day she brings God down from his thronethen reconciles with himthrough the…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: “Nakba” by Haifa (Translated by Fady Joudah)”

. Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour explains how the watermelon became a symbol of resistance for Palestinians.

Adam Serwer joins Charlie Sykes to discuss his new book, The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump’s America.

. . The sense of relief that came over many Americans after the malignant pandemo-fascist Donald Trump’s removal from power seems increasingly misplaced……Continue

      Author and activist Aph Ko explains her novel and insightful ideas on race and animality to foster multidimensional liberation for all human races and…… Read more “Racism as Zoological Witchcraft”

These video essays look at why capitalism is killing us (and the planet) by causing climate change. Specifically, it examines how capitalism’s multinationals like ExxonMobil and BP are…… Read more “Why Capitalism is Killing Us (And The Planet)”

   Source: Black Agenda Report The same activists who are working to defund the police are also part of a collective movement to bring an end to…… Read more “To End Racial Capitalism, We Will Need to Take On the Institution of Policing by Henry A. Giroux”

When time pulls lives apartHold your own When everything is fluid, and when nothing can be known with any certaintyHold your own Hold it ’til you feel…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: “Hold Your Own” by Kate Tempest”

Source: Brain Pickings “What exists, exists so that it can be lost and become precious,” Lisel Mueller, who lived to nearly 100, wrote in her gorgeous poem…… Read more “Probable Impossibilities: How Our Cosmic Improbability Confers Dignity & Meaning Upon Our Shared Existence by Maria Popova”

Elizabeth Hinton is an associate professor of history and African American studies at Yale University and a professor of law at Yale Law School. In this interview,…… Read more ““America on Fire”: Historian Elizabeth Hinton on George Floyd, Policing & Black Rebellion”

Never Aired: Profile on James Baldwin ABC’s 20/20, 1979 from A Closer Look on Vimeo. When James uttered the following in this interview, I wasn’t surprised by…… Read more “Never Aired (..gee, wonder why?): Profile on James Baldwin (1979)”

Source: The Atlantic The signposts of racism are staring back at us in big, bold racial inequities. But some Americans are ignoring the signposts, walking on by…… Read more “Our New Postracial Myth by Ibram X. Kendi”

Professor Kehinde Andrews is the founder and director of the center of critical social research founder of the Harambe organisation of black unity, which houses, the blog…… Read more “Kehinde Andrews: New Empire, Same Rules”

Meshell Ndegeocello occupies her own space much like Prince did in terms of her brilliance as a prolific multi instrumentalist, song writer & poetic intellectual. Her music…… Read more “Invisible Blackness: An Interview w/Meshell Ndegeocello”

NPR Interview: LISTEN My top Thom Bell produced/arranged cuts that will stand the test of time: https://eddierockerzmusic.wordpress.com/2017/07/28/the-genius-of-thom-bell/

I am The One your God who created you with love and joy from the fountain of eternal light. All sentient beings are of value and importance…… Read more “Ten Commandments for the Future by Rabbi Leah Novick”

   Source: HenryGiroux The toxic thrust of white supremacy runs through American culture like an electric current. Jim Crow is back without apology suffocating American society in…… Read more “Against Apartheid Pedagogy in the Age of White Supremacy by Henry Giroux”

Fake news can sway elections, tank economies and sow discord in everyday life. Data scientist Sinan Aral demystifies how and why it spreads so quickly — citing…… Read more “Sinan Aral: How We Can Protect Truth in the Age of Misinformation”

  This powerful documentary offers an unflinching and moving portrait of a people largely abandoned by the outside world, struggling to endure. It presents a chilling visual…… Read more “Killing Gaza”

Source: Academy of Ideas Throughout this insightful clip, I couldn’t help but think of  the MAGAts, crazed Zionists & loopy evangelicals as well as the authoritarian blowhards…… Read more “The Mass Psychosis and the Demons of Dostoevsky”