AFL-CIO Holds Racial & Economic Justice Town Hall
Greater St. Mark Family Church-The Racial and Economic Justice Public Town Hall Meeting was held to address the barriers to building a strong labor movement so that a strong racial justice movement can endure. Opening remarks by Kristian Blackmon (Jobs with Justice), Hazel Erby (St. Louis County Council), Adolphus Pruitt (NAACP) and Montague Simmons (OBS) […]
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 […]