A Different Kind of Club
Note: This column has been corrected since it was first published on this blog on March 15, 2016. From the Battlefield-BlackCommentator.com, March 10, 2016 “If you want to hear the truth, you must let the suffering speak.” This was the quote by Cornel West that Cephus Johnson led off with at the “Testimonies of Love, Loss […]
Ferguson still living in the past
Posted at ST. Louis American on February 25, 2016 Loretta Lynch, head of the Department of Justice, responded to Ferguson city officials with a law suit and a provocative statement. Claiming the DOJ changes would be too costly to the city, Ferguson city officials chose to spend millions of taxpayers’ dollars to fight the […]
Last of the Angola 3 released!
Albert Woodfox was freed today on his 69th birthday. He was the United States’ longest serving prisoner held in isolation. Nearly every day for more than half of his life, Albert Woodfox woke up in a cell the size of a parking space, surrounded by concrete and steel. There are still political prisoners languishing in […]