We think we can ride Obama’s coattails into full integration with White people and the American government, but that ain’t happening, we are falling into deeper poverty and isolation under Obama, but because we can see a Black family in the White House we somehow fail to fully register our decline. This psychic numbness is a by-product of over 3 centuries of enslavement and oppression, we have gone insane as a people, we all suffer...

The movement to End Stop and Frisk was dealt a blow by the Federal Appeals Court. The ‘reforms’ were halted and the sympathetic judge was removed from the case. I was not that invested in the effort to Stop Stop & Frisk because I knew that ultimately it wouldn’t end the police occupation and repression of the Black community. There was no Stop & Frisk law when the police assassinated Fred Hampton. The police never...

Felicité, is the wife of Jan-Jak Dessalines, a strong woman who was much older than him. He was her third husband. She was our first nurse. They talk about Florence Nightingale but she was before her. She took care of the soldiers even the French soldiers. She had a strong personality and told Dessalines ‘your enemies are not mine, let me choose mine’. Sometimes, she negotiated with Dessalines to return the French soldiers to France. She...