The revolution will probably be televised
Published by BlackCommentator.com, April 13, 2023 Almost twenty years ago, INCITE! held a national conference with the theme, The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond The Non-Profit Industrial Complex. INCITE! is a network of radical feminists fighting against systemic violence against women. It went on to publish a groundbreaking movement anthology of the same name. It wasn’t […]
How the Third Reconstruction is playing out in St. Louis
Published in the St. Louis American, March 2, 2023 Peniel Joseph calls it the Third Reconstruction. His latest book of the same name chronicles the cyclical and violent white backlash to Black progress in this country. You can see the highly coordinated, racist strategy being carried out across the country now—just as it has […]
How police created their own problems
Published by St. Louis American, February 18, 2023 Nearly 25 years ago when the Coalition Against Police Crimes & Repression formed, one of its three demands was that police officers must be recruited from the communities they served. The purpose is to hire more African Americans for these public service positions. Over the years, the […]