“I Have a Dream,” 50 Years Later
by Jonathan Blanks Jonathan Blanks examines the complaints in Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech on its 50th anniversary. Fifty years ago today, Dr. Martin […]
Police Brutality Doesn’t Just Happen To Black Men
By Jasmin Howard “I can’t breathe!” This phrase has become a recent sound bite of police brutality in America’s collective memory. It invokes the memory of the extrajudicial killing of […]
BrotherSpeak: Exploring rage after Ferguson
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falling back in love with hip hop ( j cole angie martinez interview )
“History repeats itself and that’s just how it goes Same way that these rappers always bite each others flows Same thing that my nigga Elvis did with Rock n Roll […]
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 […]
How police confront black and white citizens
9:55 pm, November 28, 2014 In April of my freshman year at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a woman bolted past me at the front door of my residence […]