Malcolm X ( May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965)
“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.” More here (10)
Warrior Queen: Audre Lorde (February 18, 1934 – November 17, 1992)
Audre Lorde (February 18, 1934 – November 17, 1992) Power By Audre Lorde The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children. I am trapped on a desert of raw gunshot wounds and a dead child dragging his shattered black face off the…
CI: Crimes of Style ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. Crimes of Style ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat by nancy…
Rosa Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005)
Rosa Parks, Revisited by Charles M. Blow, New York Times: On the verge of the 100th anniversary of her birth this Monday comes a fascinating new book, “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks,” by Jeanne Theoharis, a Brooklyn College professor. It argues that the romanticized, children’s-book story of a…
Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967)
I, Too By Langston Hughes I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table When company comes. Nobody’ll dare Say to me, “Eat in…
What’s Left Out of Black History Month Celebrations: The Accelerating Racial Wealth Gap
From The Nation: According to the State of Working America, in the forty-year period that preceded the civil rights reforms of the mid-1960s, the bottom 90 percent of Americans shared 73 percent of the income growth in the United States. Black Americans, who were suffering severe legal discrimination and a…