Booker Washington Community Center — by way of my friend Antar Baker — asked me to come into their space and lead Black youth in a creative writing class based on the movie Black Panther. Wakanda — the fictional city where Black Panther lives and leads — is what we…

In the realm of human rights, and the human rights protections of human beings, you would think that in this time in history — of the history in law and policies governing the United States particularly — there would be human rights that would exist to solely protect Black people…

Are we soulful enough to sit together and scribe stanzas that find hope and answers for the people in Buffalo? If you own a saxophone, can you blow for the Black people who lost their lives to racial terrorism, can you play the Blues for all the victims; the citizens…

When racial terrorism is taken seriously in the United States, this country will begin to come admit it has a serious problem — that what has happened to Red, Black, Brown, and Yellow people in this country is the reason it is in the shape it is in. The poisonous…

Racism, this country’s longstanding oppressive system against Blacks — and other people of color — is stupid once you look at why it was constructed, economics, and the things some white people have written and said about what makes them superior. These reasons, documentations, and theories do not make any…

Racial justice in these days in time takes education, commitment, patience, and an ability to galvanize the masses towards a specific goal or platform that enables us to achieve justice or equity. Without this in place, we have no future in accomplishing — for the long haul — wins our…

Being A Black Man Ain’t Easy: Juwan Howard, The University Of Michigan, and Greg Gard I stepped inside of University of Michigan men’s head basketball coach Juwan Howard’s shoes for a moment this morning. As I watched the ESPN hit show “Get Up” to catch up with the headlining sports…

Everybody heard them, in Rockford, the shots, were loud enough to wake up an entire community to the needs of young people whose first impulse is to shoot a gun. Those gunshots were coming regardless. They represent years of failing the youth; of hiding the city’s truths; of fatherless homes; subpar, substandard education; the cost of being Black, Brown, overlooked, undermined…

Before Kyle keeps crying, keeps sobbing, keeps looking at the juror’s with puppy dog eyes, before another person dies for their stance on human rights let’s take three collective deep breaths. Before Kenosha is burned to the ground or the sounds of sirens, police cars, and rioting is caught in a rapture…