Decent People Action Alert: Troy Davis
There have been several cases in the past few years of Black men who were convicted and sentenced to death based upon eyewitness testimony, only to have DNA evidence exonerate them.
Month: April 2011
A Long (Elastic) Goodbye
In November 2009, I had my uterine fibroids removed; it took me seventeen years to make that decision. During those years, I tried everything to shrink them or make them stop growing, but they kept getting larger. By the time I did discover that a low-fat/high fiber diet, exercise and stress management would help me […]
Cherry-Picking Our Shining Black Past
In alleging Malcolm X was bisexual, Manning Marable has more than just nudged up again The Black Homophobia Thought Police; he’s taken out a bat and commenced to beating them about the head and shoulders.