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Sep 3, 2022

Sowing the Seeds of Fascism: White Denial and the Fate of American Democracy

As I watched the president emerge from Independence Hall in Philadelphia last night to address the nation on the rising scourge of fascism and those that have been called MAGA Republicans, I could not help but take note of the irony of the spectacle. Biden and the Democrats sought to…

Biden

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Sowing the Seeds of Fascism: White Denial and the Fate of American Democracy
Sowing the Seeds of Fascism: White Denial and the Fate of American Democracy
Biden

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May 25, 2022

Kids Still Die: “Living” the Consequence of European Conquest

We are still living out the consequence of European conquest and colonization of the Indigenous peoples and lands of this continent. The very law they raise up to defend their right to bear arms was a law born out of their will to protect what they stole and to defend…

Gun Violence

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Kids Still Die: “Living” the Consequence of European Conquest
Kids Still Die: “Living” the Consequence of European Conquest
Gun Violence

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May 19, 2022

Too Black Too Strong

You were Our Blackness Reinvented By the necessary of our condition A pride chiseled in your flesh Defiant as a mountain and as abrasive You put the diss in dissonance A sonic boom clash of dissent Bombarding our senses with an incessant chant of right and exact A pariah to…

Malcolm X

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Too Black Too Strong
Too Black Too Strong
Malcolm X

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Published in LEVEL

·Dec 16, 2021

bell hooks saved me

bell hooks saved me. I say that in all sincerity. …

Feminism

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bell hooks saved me
bell hooks saved me
Feminism

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Aug 4, 2021

Gov. Cuomo, Culture is No Excuse for Sexual Harassment

Earlier this week, New York Attorney General Letitia James released a damning report in which 11 women accuse New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment. In his videotaped defense, Cuomo suggested that his behavior was “cultural” and not gender-specific. He displayed photos of himself kissing the cheeks of other…

Andrew Cuomo

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Gov. Cuomo, Culture is No Excuse for Sexual Harassment
Gov. Cuomo, Culture is No Excuse for Sexual Harassment
Andrew Cuomo

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Jun 19, 2021

Juneteenth as a Federal Holiday is an Act of Fraud by a Congress that Continues to Sabotage Black Freedom

Earlier this week the Congress passed legislation making Juneteenth a federal holiday, and, somehow we are supposed to see this as an act of progress and cause for celebration. …

Juneteenth

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Juneteenth as a Federal Holiday is an Act of Fraud by a Congress that Continues to Sabotage Black…
Juneteenth as a Federal Holiday is an Act of Fraud by a Congress that Continues to Sabotage Black…
Juneteenth

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Published in An Injustice!

·Jun 10, 2021

The 10 Indicators that Black Lives Matter at Your Job

A year ago the whole world witnessed one of the most glaring and repulsive acts of police violence captured on video when Derek Chauvin, with the active support and cooperation of his fellow officers, put the full weight of his body on the neck of George Floyd as he lay…

BlackLivesMatter

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The 10 Indicators that Black Lives Matter at Your Job
The 10 Indicators that Black Lives Matter at Your Job
BlackLivesMatter

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Apr 28, 2021

Biden Owes Black People a Police Reform Executive Order as Act of Redemption

Within minutes of the judge reading the guilty verdicts in the case of ex-police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, MN, President Biden took to the airwaves to offer his response to this case. In his remarks, he indicated his ongoing support for the passage…

Joe Biden

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Biden Owes Black People a Police Reform Executive Order as Act of Redemption
Biden Owes Black People a Police Reform Executive Order as Act of Redemption
Joe Biden

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Nov 27, 2020

Socialists Don’t Kill Us; Cops Do: Open Letter to Rep. Jim Clyburn

As someone who has recognized the crucial role you played during the primary to secure Trump’s defeat in the election, I write to you from a place of deep concern in light of your recent comments following your party’s presidential win. In an interview with Yahoo Finance, in response to…

Jim Clyburn

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Socialists Don’t Kill Us; Cops Do: Open Letter to Rep. Jim Clyburn
Socialists Don’t Kill Us; Cops Do: Open Letter to Rep. Jim Clyburn
Jim Clyburn

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Nov 7, 2020

The Ballot was a Bullet: Black Power at the Polls

It was the French philosopher Michel Foucault who is known to have said, “Politics is war by other means.” For African Americans, we have been engaged in a one-sided war since Trump took office. A war that culminated in one of the bloodiest summers Black people have experienced since the…

2020 Presidential Race

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The Ballot was a Bullet: Black Power at the Polls
The Ballot was a Bullet: Black Power at the Polls
2020 Presidential Race

10 min read

Ewuare X. Osayande

Ewuare X. Osayande

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Activist. Poet. Essayist. Author of Black Phoenix Uprising. Learn more about his work at racial-justice.org.

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