Moving forward while acknowledging that we stand on the shoulders and the achievements of many courageous people and consequential thought engines such as the publications Freedomways, The Crisis, Black Scholar, … Read More
Richard E. Rubenstein Fifty years ago this year, I published my first book, entitled Rebels in Eden – an exploration of mass political violence in America focusing on the uprisings … Read More
“A warm –up?” “No,” the petite bronze-skinned beauty replies. She pulls her mouth downward and to the left into a slight disapproving frown. Drew notices but doesn’t say anything. He … Read More
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”The Life of Reason~ George Santayana (1905) Once again, Indianapolis and its police department have come to a fork in … Read More
It is a term we have heard a lot since the killing of George Floyd by four Minneapolis police officers last month. But what does the term actually mean in … Read More
In the 1950s when I was a youngster in NYC, I looked forward to the summers on my grandmother’s farm in very rural South Carolina. Before leaving the City, my mother … Read More
‘In a recent article Robert Reich pointed out that American wages have stagnant for over 40 years. Not answered is why the alarm bells were not sounded.’ The alarm bells … Read More
Ferguson, Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Louisville, Georgia…. In every state in the United States and certainly in every major urban center within the nation; police brutality against black people has been … Read More
Over fifty years ago in Chicago, I founded the Afro-American Patrolman’s League. Black policemen were routinely ridiculed and called Uncle Toms, and they were primarily thought to be the Praetorian … Read More
Glory and celebration beckon in the wings of the play before hubris and nemesis bring it to an end. An old archetypal denouement of ancient Greek drama. Or as Mao … Read More
Contributors to The Stratevist Journal Senator Alice Palmer – Former IL State Senator; Associate Dean of Students and Director of African American Student Affairs, Northwestern University; Retired Research Associate Professor, … Read More