Liberatory scholar Paulo Freire wrote extensively on how oppressive societies are maintained. One of his interesting ideas was mystification — “the process by which the alienating and oppressive features of a culture are disguised and hidden. False, superficial and naïve... Read More ›

You thought I was going to write about Walter Scott, didn’t you? Wrong. I’ll let the rest of the country write about the dead for a change. Right now I want to take a minute to talk to and about... Read More ›

Los Angeles - One of my closest friends once admonished me, “You’re a romantic, dude. You think you can save everybody. What you gotta realize is a good percentage of our people are already done. They’re dead and just don’t... Read More ›

Rightfully, we pause to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. every year. Wrongfully, Malcolm X is still not so well received. Sadly, Brother Malcolm’s birthday often comes and goes without the majority of people realizing it. There is no fanfare in... Read More ›

As we remember my Morehouse brother Martin Luther King, Jr. (Class of 1948) this year we also have the opportunity to engage director Ava DuVernay’s cinematic take on one of the greatest protest sites of the American civil rights movement... Read More ›

Recently, my friend Dr. Kevin Cosby commented in a sermon that he would not join in protest marches based on “hands up, don’t shoot . . . because we’re the ones doing the shooting.” The quote that obtuse local media... Read More ›