Sunset Baby

Tonite I had the privilege of facilitating the post-production discussion of “Sunset Baby.” I felt such a familiarity with the complex themes, the raging subtext and the play’s complicated characters. I heard converging stories of Afeni Shakur (Tupac’s mama), the Ferguson uprising, the crack cocaine epidemic, the Black Liberation Struggle, black masculinity in America…How can […]

A Radical Week

  The Black Radical Traditions Conf was held at Temple U, organized by an inter-generational team, to bring together “honest and committed intellectuals and activists…to imagine a different future and suggest strategies and tactics to fight for it.” Conf organizers expected a few hundred participants but had to cut off pre-registration at 1000 before the […]

An Interview with Rasheen Aldridge

Published at St. Louis American, November 30, 2015 Rasheen Aldridge is an organizer with the Show Me $15 Campaign. The 2013 recipient of the Jamala Rogers Young Visionary Award, he emerged as one of the prominent leaders of the Ferguson Uprising. He became the youngest member of Ferguson Commission convened by Missouri Governor Jay Nixon. […]