Toward the end of his life, Frederick Douglass served briefly as U.S. ambassador to Haiti. The disastrous episode reveals much about the country’s long struggle for Black sovereignty while always under the threat of U.S. empire. — Read on http://www.bostonreview.net/articles/frederick-douglass-and-american-empire-in-haiti/
Category Archives: Lit Review
Land as a social relationship – Briarpatch Magazine
Reconstituting our diverse relations, our laws, and value systems is key to successfully retaking our land and to not only surviving but creating a life worth living for all of us. — Read on briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/land-as-a-social-relationship
suicide in langston hughes
We are reading The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes in my Harlem Renaissance class. While I’ve taught Hughes over the years, the last time I spent … suicide in langston hughes
Palestine’s Martyrdom Upends the World of Law • Protean Magazine
Bassem Saad writes on the contradictions of human rights discourse and international legal structures and the meaning of martyrdom. Hypocrisy is all too clear in the “Palestine exception.” — Read on proteanmag.com/2024/01/27/palestines-martyrdom-upends-the-world-of-law/
Walter Rodney’s Radical Legacy – Boston Review
Contrary to those who cast Marxism as a Eurocentric “white ideology,” the Guyanese revolutionary saw it as an essential component of struggles against colonialism. — Read on http://www.bostonreview.net/articles/walter-rodneys-radical-legacy/
errand #17
sometimes the people you mobilize with are not the people you want to organize with, they’re not. and vice-versa. and sometimes this doesn’t apply. but some times the people you mobilize with are not the people you want to organize with
At World’s End: Palestine, the ICJ, and a New Dawn in International Law – Opinio Juris
At World’s End: Palestine, the ICJ, and a New Dawn in International Law – Opinio Juris — Read on opiniojuris.org/2024/01/09/at-worlds-end-palestine-the-icj-and-a-new-dawn-in-international-law/
bad shit
This is is the harm reduction candidate but people are still dying from bad shit. Bad shit, people are still dying from some bad shit. You know my dad OD’ed it was 2003. Mother’s Day Weekend. It was some bad shit killed him and he was Gone and it was Mother’s Day Weekend. You knowContinue reading “bad shit”
prayer
Prayer is separated by the willing mind. And the willing heart. It is in that space between the planning and the doing. It is in that space where we become warriors and tear down the walls. It is in the magic of blood, of tears of course sweat, of course it is in the shitContinue reading “prayer”
Resistance and Revolutionary Will: Soha Bechara and Nawal Baidoun’s Testimonies of Khiam Prison — Liberated Texts
These texts are complementary; read together they offer both how one decides to act, and the sensory and psychic experiences of Khiam, the consequences of revolutionary action. — Read on liberatedtexts.com/reviews/resistance-and-revolutionary-will-soha-bechara-and-nawal-baidouns-testimonies-of-khiam-prison/
Aida Rends 