Harry Haywood, Black People, and the 2024 U.S. Election

By Charisse Burden-Stelly On January 20, 2025, Donald Trump will sit alongside Grover Cleveland as the only U.S. President to serve two non-… Harry Haywood, Black People, and the 2024 U.S. Election Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly reminds of the prescience of Harry Haywood.

The Parable of the Three AUC Students

Looking back to move forward, the struggle for Black liberation is now. I offer a parable on political power beyond elections. Rest is not resistance.

The Uhuru Three, African Stream, and the Black Scare/Red Scare

The repression of Black radicalism is immense and is being perpetrated by both major political parties in the US. This is a “bi-partisan” effort, as is the Palestinian genocide. Given that Georgia has now nullified any votes casts for the Green and PSL (Marxist/Leninist) parties based on law suites brought by the Democratic (i.e. DEI […]

“Our ancestors DIED so we could vote.”

Voting was always one instrument among many, in the 500 year struggle of enslaved Africans in Abya Yala (the americas). Nobody gave their life for the “privilege” of choosing between enslavers. This article captures so much of the contradictions of this and every US farcical election cycle. By Christopher Woolf On the subject of our […]

Parable of the Rabbit

The stories of my grandmother as ancestral calls to marronage.

Biden at Morehouse? Nah.

Support Morehouse College students in shutting down Biden’s 2024 commencement speech at Morehouse College

To the Black Veteran

What is the responsibility of the Black veteran? Meditations on radicalization

Plantation is not a metaphor

Plantation is not a metaphorWhen she told us she’d been firedfor holding an open door for the Muslim sistersFor telling the white man that was not her nameFor allowing the sisters to hold spaceFor being the Didi to the sisters far from homeThe school was founded by a plantation ownerNever got the memo about emancipationafter […]

On Property

The Black radical tradition has always involved the disruption of property. We were the “loot” upon which the nation was built, our very existence is the abolition of property

Bee at Peace, Be at Rest

The solstice occurred a few days ago. Images of Yaldā celebrations uplifted the world. As I complete this post, the temperature outside is well below freezing and is predicted to remain so through the day. In many part of the planet, life is embracing rest. For the last three years I’ve noticed how the older […]