As Black History Month begins its 100th year, I ask my readers to approach it not as a celebration emptied of substance, but as a solemn opportunity for reflection, education, and action.
I like your point about reparations. Not given to the enslaved people (you know…the ones that were all “created equal”)..but the slave-owners for losing free labor!!
This is a sentiment so close to my heart in this very moment. https://open.substack.com/pub/boazcarsonochieng/p/like-me-yet-so-different?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5m69e9
rabbi sandra lawson https://www.rabbisandralawson.com/ Please check out her musings on substack
Please don’t forget the writings of Audre Lorde, along with James Baldwin.
Try supporting Equal Justice Initiative , led by Bryan Stevenson
Try supporting local Urban League
Do something💓
I like your point about reparations. Not given to the enslaved people (you know…the ones that were all “created equal”)..but the slave-owners for losing free labor!!
Dr Stacy Patton, truth-teller.
-Roxanne Gay: Bad Feminist, The Portable Feminist Reader: 2025
-W. Kamau Bell asks: Who's With Me? Substack
-Elie Mystal: Bad Law 10 Popular Laws that are Ruining America / The Nation (last week):https://www.thenation.com/article/society/don-lemon-georgia-fort-arrest/
-The Combahee River Collective: Black Feminist Organizing in the 70s & 80s (Later Kitchen Table Press)
-Kara Walker - Artist
-Jadé Fadojutimi - Artist
-Angela Davis: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
- Rita Dove, American Poet Laureate: Sonata Mullatica
Michael Harriot- Contraband Camp & author of Black AF History.. such a great book
Jamelle Bouie
Very well stated my Brown brother.
I’m going to have to save this posting for frequent future references. Thank you for your clarity and specificity. You are a treasure.
So grateful for all the amazing recs of Black voices in this comment section!
The Journeyman by Marlon Weems
A Native Son by Eddy Glaude
DAM Digest by Danielle Moodie
YES! DAM!!🔥
Highly recommend Khalil Greene's substack. I have learned so much through his voice.
Dr. Jemar Tisby. He gave a rousing sermon at the end of the Southern Lights conference that Diana Butler Bass organizes each January.
a native son on substack By professor Eddie Glaude. I've followed him for yrs.
Bishop William Barber. An activist his entire life!
The 1619 Project, ed. Nikole Hannah-Jones, et al., 2021.
I subscribe to a number of people already listed, although I didn’t see @Ohun Ashe on the list. She’s another very powerful voice.