The meaning of racism has been buried under a mountain of antiracism rhetoric that never actually defines it. Antiracism has become the dominant focus of the discussion on racism in the media. It is the new social trend that seems to perpetuate the notion that Black...
Frederick Douglass's 4th of July speech is the most important thing America never taught you. Your school didn't teach it to you. That was not an accident. Every July 4th, America puts on its bogus costume. Fireworks. Flags. Cookouts. Speeches about freedom, liberty,...
He spent 16 years crossing Africa on foot, by bus, and by boat — gathering what schools had buried for centuries. They never forgave him for it. There is a particular kind of danger that comes from a Black man who refuses to accept the story he was given. Chancellor...
I once drove Dr. John Henrik Clarke home. It was about an hour's drive to Harlem, and we talked the whole way. He was already elderly by then, his eyesight failing, but his mind was as sharp as a blade. There was nothing frail about the way he thought or the way he...
They told you Columbus discovered America in 1492. They told you that before Europeans arrived, the Americas were isolated — cut off from the rest of the world, waiting to be "found." They told you Africans had no ships. No navigation. No capacity to cross oceans....
They never put him in your textbook. That wasn't an accident. The Man Whom Schools Pretended Didn't Exist Let me ask you something. When you were sitting in your high school history class learning about "the cradle of civilization," did your teacher ever mention a...