“Ferguson is everywhere’: More crowds demand action as Obama lays out plan
(CNN) — Now this is about much more than Michael Brown and a grand jury’s decision not to indict the officer who shot him. From Harvard to Texas A&M to […]
Jill Scott on Bill Cosby: The media is trying to destroy his magnificent legacy
Jill Scott is a firm believer in the principle of presumption of innocence and she proved as much today when she got into a bit of a tiff with her […]
Generation Kill
Toussaint December 1, 2014 A few years back I was engaged in a manhood initiative at a local Chicago high school. One bay after our program I walked one of […]
Robert Jensen The Color of the Race Problem Is White”
In The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. DuBois suggested that the question white people so often want to ask black people is, How does it feel to be a problem? […]
In America, black children don’t get to be children
By Stacey Patton November 26 Stacey Patton, a senior enterprise reporter at the Chronicle of Higher Education, is the author of the memoir “That Mean Old Yesterday.” Black America has […]
Memphis rapper shuts down 4 sheriff’s
Memphis, TN — A video exclusively submitted to the Free Thought Project shows a very well spoken and informed individual flexing his 4th amendment rights against four police officers. The […]