And for an activist success story, read this book excerpt by Lawerence Hamm and Annette Alston, courtesy of Jared Ball’s imixwhatilike.org.
Tag Archives: Lawrence Hamm
My AtlantaBlackStar Article On The 50th Anniversary Of The Newark Rebellion…..
…….is here.
My Root Article On The Newark, N.J.’s Police Union’s Attempt To Stop The Newark Civilian Complaint Review Board……
My Root Article On The Post-Election Panel At The IBW-21’s “State Of The Black World” Conference……
…….is here.
Mumia Abu-Jamal, on “Democracy Now!”, Speaks About the DNC
My 30th Anniversary In The Black Press (Thank You, Deborah Smith-Gregory!)
Thirty years ago today, at the ripe age of 17, I covered my first news story professionally. I covered a huge anti-apartheid rally in Newark, N.J. for The New Jersey Afro-American newspaper, the “baby” of what then was a chain of weeklies that went up and down the East Coast. Deborah P. Smith-Gregory, my journalism teacher at Seton Hall University’s Upward Bound project in 1983, brought me into The AFRO. She allowed me to share her byline with her. The article made it onto the front page, and I never looked back. Thanks, Mrs. Deborah Smith-Gregory!
Free Marylin Zuniga!
The above video is from April. The photos and video below are from last night.
“So long as one just person is silenced, there is no justice.”–Mumia Abu-Jamal
(That’s the issue, right? Boy, irony abounds in Black/Brown life! :))
The next meeting of the Orange Board of Education is Tuesday, my old newspaper said.
I’ve long argued Mumia Abu-Jamal was a political prisoner of the First Amendment, and I understand that what Ms. Zuniga did was not in regulation with Orange Board of Education policy, but this looks like she’s a prisoner of the First Amendment, too!
MAY 15th UPDATE: Sad, but not surprising.
Drums in the Global Village 