Tag: Malcolm X

  • Martyrs to the Unspeakable: A Luminous Tapestry of Truth

    Martyrs to the Unspeakable: A Luminous Tapestry of Truth

    To weave a magnificent tapestry like the one James W. Douglass has created with Martyrs to the Unspeakable: The Assassinations of JFK, Malcolm, Martin, and RFK takes a steady hand, a hopeful heart, and a steadfast dedication to seeking truth and telling it through factually based and interwoven stories. Because of its brilliant complexity and […]

  • Kirkwashing: Right Sanitizing Charlie Kirk’s Legacy

    Kirkwashing: Right Sanitizing Charlie Kirk’s Legacy

    In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s murder, right-wing politicians, Christian evangelical leaders, podcasters, and conservative media outlets are casting him as a martyr for free speech, for truth, and for Christian values. President Donald Trump called Kirk “a martyr for truth and freedom,” praising him as someone who “fought for liberty, democracy, justice and the […]

  • Malcolm X: Man of Peace

    Malcolm was our manhood, our living black manhood. — Ossie Davis Treat me like a man, or kill me. — Malcolm X[1] February 21, 2025 marked sixty years since Malcolm X was gunned down in a hail of bullets at the Audobon Ballroom in New York City as he was starting to give a speech. […]

  • Hideous Times of High Hope

    Hideous Times of High Hope

    It is hard for those who have not lived through the shattering political assassinations of the 1960s to grasp their significance for today.  Many might assume that that was then and long before their time, so let’s move on to what we must deal with today.  Let some old folks, the obsessive ones, live in […]

  • Polemics and Breaking the Ad Homimen Rule

    Polemics and Breaking the Ad Homimen Rule

    There are so many ways to frame a story, skin a cat, so to speak, and make a message lift up from the dry desert of the digital wasteland to somehow precipitate a reaction. Humor, sarcasm, wit, the Jonathan Swift “let them eat a modest proposal” sort of way. Journalism has slid down a slippery […]

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