Dr. Leon Finney Jr. 1938 – 2020
byDr. Leon Finney Jr. was a dear friend. I first met him as a college student, working with Reverends Jesse Jackson and Willie Barrow…
Black America
CRIMINAL JUSTICE, CORONAVIRUS AND THE COURTS
byThere are over 2.3 million Black people in jails and prisons in the United States. That terrible fact, explained in detail by Michelle Alexander…
Q&A With David Brown, Superintendent of Chicago Police
byDavid O’Neal Brown is Chicago’s newest Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department. Brown was the chief of the Dallas Police Department from 2010 to…
Rev. CT Vivian’s Chicago Connection
byAlthough he passed into eternal life the same day as the more nationally known giant of the Civil Rights movement John Lewis, the Rev….
Capital “B”: Words Are Powerful
byFinally, some members of the mainstream news media have come to the conclusion that from now on, they will capitalize the “B” in Black…
Black Injury Recognized; Now What?
byThe murder of George Floyd by white Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin has unleashed a torrent of protests across all 50 states and even some…
Time For A Timeout
by“Hey Chicago, you want some of this?” he asked me. Michael Jordan and I had met a few times in Chicago, but I was…
Dear White People – 8:46
byThe lynching of George Floyd is a milestone turning point for America. Where it turns nobody knows, but with a resounding noise the country,…
Brother Conrad (In Memoriam)
byBrother Conrad Worrill died on June 3. It was a very sad day. He was a revolutionary who had been at the forefront of…
Is George Floyd The Nail In The Coffin Of Racism?
by“I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.” – Fannie Lou Hamer The police killing of George Floyd is a nail in the…
Space Traders and Corona Chaos Crusaders
byDerrick Bell in 1992 published Faces at the Bottom of the Well – The Permanence of Racism. One short story embedded in Bell’s opus…
The First Dunce And the Last Dance
byThis was the American landscape that lay open to the coronavirus. In prosperous cities, an affluent class of globally connected desk workers were blithely…