For those of you who didn’t catch episode 43 of The Saturday Six Pack when it was first broadcast a few weeks ago, it’s now available online. If you scroll to the bottom of this post, you’ll find it embedded. If you’d rather not hear my voice, though, here are my abbreviated notes. Our first […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Civil Liberties, Detroit, Michigan, Politics, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged #cut50, accountability partners, authors, Calvin Evans, civil rights, Cut 50, Detroit, Dick Soble, Donald Goines, East Detroit, fiction, mysteries, Oprah, overincarceration, pacts, prison, prison reform, Red Squad, Shaka Senghor, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the cost of incarceration, the hiring on ex-fellons, Urban Ashes |
Today, thanks to Facebook, I discovered that two of the most influential men in my life share the same birthday. Both Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little) and Joey Ramone (born Jeffrey Ross Hyman) started their journeys on May 19, and, in their honor, not only am I drinking a beer right now to their memories, […]
By Mark | August 24, 2014
If you read this site, you know that, generally speaking, I believe today’s so-called open carry advocates to be lunatics. With that said, though, I have to confess that I love the idea of black folks reappropriating what, over the past few years, has been almost exclusively a white, conservative movement, and taking it back […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Also tagged #BlackOpenCarry, Black Panthers, Dallas, gun control, guns, Huey P. Newton Gun Club, Martin Luther King Jr., Michael Brown, MLK, NRA, open carry, police, police abuse, racism, Ronald Reagan |