Put on display
Like an animal in a zoo
You’ve been recognized as
“The first Black to…”
What does it mean
Some sort of progress?
That you’ve proven
Yourself a success?
That you’re
Better than the rest?
No, all it … Read the rest
Yesterday a Black guard
puttin’ on for white pigs
Helped beat a young Black prisoner,
And cover up what they did.
Today she talkin’,
“Yet another unarmed kid”
“The only thing he did,
Walking home being Black”
“Was targeted by … Read the rest
We need a proper assessment
What is education?
Passing the torch of things learned
To the next generation.
Which makes our elders
Priceless jewels,
Indispensable to our liberation schools.
But the young
Can’t be confined,
To what was developed
In … Read the rest
The constitutional right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment within the Eighth Amendment derives its meaning from the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a somewhat maturing society. The prohibition … Read the rest
Hubert Harrison
His name is a mystery
Written out of history
Because he left no stone unturned
From every source he learned
All exploiters he spurned
From Booker T. Washington to Marcus Garvey
He boldly exposed the pawns of racist … Read the rest
Comrade Jonathan Jackson
Our communist Black son
Your name be still ringing
Your praises we still singing
Took courage in hand
And ran wild
Across the history
Page
Took on the capitalist system
Dared to resist them
With righteous rage… Read the rest
Why do we like
To proclaim,
That we are kings and queens
From royalty we came?
It was a response to
White supremacist lies,
That compared to Europeans
Afrikans were never civilized.
To counter these claims
The insult and despair,… Read the rest
Malcolm X once said
We’ll stand up to get free
When we wake up
Open pour eyes and see
Our human worth
Cuz we been degraded from birth
Taught to see something
Praiseworthy in being insulted
Spat on with a … Read the rest
Some return in coffins
draped with flags,
Some with limbs missing
Some with minds in tatters and rags.
Disembarking planes
Met on runways by their missus,
And children aged in their absence
A reunion of hugs and kisses
Your experiences … Read the rest
During slavery
Black folks would often invent
Figures of speech and words
That were meant
To express their grievances
And anger
But in a way
As to avoid the danger
Of arousing the
Wraith and violence
Of the owners
Without … Read the rest
