During Chattel Slavery our ancestors sang songs of liberation, coded songs that would help guide those who were daring enough to take the risk to freedom in the North, or deeper South. Songs like Wade in the Water & Follow the Drinkin’ Gourd. These songs were sang through the Slave Quarters, and in the fields, and wherever you found enslaved Africans. Today, as I live in my (poor Black) community, and visit Hoods all over the US I...
I was really pissed off when KRS-One did the voice over for this commercial. The BlastMaster actually said “the Revolution is about Basketball & Basketball is the truth,” while speaking over Gil Scott-Heron’s “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” track. I couldn’t believe my ears, I even felt betrayed as a long time student, not fan but student of “the Teacha.” How could he do such a thing?!?...
As the Donald Sterling controversy winds down and we await the next Atrocity or Racist Incident to hit the corporate media, can we use that gap in Black Reactionary Excitement to do some rational planning and organizing for fundamental Liberation and Empowerment? The people who are willing to sit at the table and take it to the streets when the corporate media isn’t whipping them into a frenzy are the ones you want at the table. You can do...