Contributors
Black Graves Matter
The hard-fought struggle for dignified and documented African American burials in Philadelphia. [more…]
Black Lives Matter
American Injustice
BlackStar Film Festival: Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power
“Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power“ is one of the most consequential films of 2022, particularly given the Republican’s ongoing assault on teachers’ ability to teach accurate American history; and the right’s attacks [more…]
American Injustice
BlackStar Film Festival: Aftershock
MOVIE REVIEW: New documentary looks at black maternal mortality in America through the eyes of two new fathers who lost their partners due to complications related to the birth of their children [more…]
History
Osage Outrage
Looking back on the MOVE tragedy in a riveting documentary [more…]
American Injustice
37 Years in the Darkest of Holes: Part 1
No matter what you think about someone’s guilt or innocence, the type of crime, or any other excuses you can come up with, solitary confinement is torture, end of story. The mental and physical health [more…]
American Injustice
Growing Up in Power
Recently I had been listening to a podcast put together by Trymaine Lee called Reconstructed as part of his main podcast Into America, and I was captivated by the power and perseverance of black resistance [more…]
American Injustice
A Christmas Miracle or Betrayal of Unhoused Philadelphians?
Just days before Christmas and days after the unhoused community memorialized 400 of their kindred who died this past year, the Philadelphia Housing Authority (P.H.A.) turned over the first 7 of a promised 59 houses, [more…]
American Injustice
Injustice Is Blind
A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals. [more…]
Contributors
Cop on Pop
How mass incarceration derails Black fatherhood [more…]
American Injustice
Toward Justice
Reform, Defund, Abolish the Police: What Does it all Mean Republicans want you to believe that any sort of reform to policing will mean that armed gangs of thugs will take over your neighborhood. The [more…]