Speech is Born Out of Longing

08.28.2022 __Rābiʿa al Basri, an 8th century Sufi poet and mystic and Islam’s first female saint – described in the Continue reading →

Toni Morrison: Race Can Only Be Defined As a Human Being

05.22.2022 __Last week, on May 14th, a Tops Friendly Markets supermarket in Buffalo NY was attacked by a shooter who Continue reading →

Racism Thrives Beneath the Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree

10.31.2021 ________________________________________ The opening of Tariq Ali’s historical novel, Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree, set in Spain during the Reconquista, Continue reading →

“The Yearning For Freedom Eventually Manifests Itself”

07.11.2021 ________________________________________ “There are people in every time and every land,” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said, “who want to stop Continue reading →

Terrorism in Washington, Racial Progress in Georgia

01.10.2021 ________________________________________ I felt very unsafe this week. I didn’t feel unsafe in 2010 when three Chechens attacked Parliament in Continue reading →

Wassup America! Stand Up and Vote Against Racism

11.01.2020 ________________________________________ On Nov. 11, 2016, Professor Eddie S. Glaude Jr., chair of Princeton University’s Department of African-American Studies, appeared Continue reading →

“Mourning for Whiteness:” Listening to the Prophets

08.11.2019 ________________________________________ I remember listening, on November 11th, three days after the 2016 presidential election, to Professor – and Prophet Continue reading →