2024 Filmmakers Competition
The Slow Power of Boycotts
“Finance is the gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.” – Don Lucchesi, The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Don Corleone Since the start of the new presidential […]
Wisdom of the Movement: Strategies & Tactics
Have you seen the slogan This Ain’t Yo Mama’s Civil Rights Movement? It is decidedly not one of my favorites, as it suggests the movement for nonviolent resistance of the […]
Supreme Shell Game
Armored up. That’s how U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson arrived at the second Trump inauguration. In the place of her jabot was a necklace of cascading white cowrie […]
The Burning House
This year’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Commemoration on Sunday, January 19, presented by New York Public Radio and the world-famous Apollo Theater, in collaboration with March On!, has […]
First Fruit: Honoring Kwanzaa’s Principles and Traditions
The Civil Rights and Black Power movements. Marches, sit-ins and era-defining court decisions. Afros and dashikis, raised fists in black gloves. In movies and music, magazines and newspapers, the mid-1950s […]
We Are March On!
What would you say is the most courageous part of the body? I say it’s the feet. Everywhere we go, our feet go first. As a child of Guyanese immigrants, […]
And The Word Was Good
Dear Friends, Among the things that are essential to living, the writing and reading of words stem from the mists of the past and reach into the equally nebulous future. […]
Of Pens and Swords
Dear Friends, A pen-as-sword-smith whose work I had the privilege of seeing recently is Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. His powerful drama, Appropriate, has quietly detonated the Broadway season. I’d gone to catch […]
The Dean’s List
Dear Friends, Imagine having a collection of fine art so vast, you’ve never seen all of it, or even most of it, in one place. So when Swizz Beatz and […]
Eclectic Duets
Dear Friends, This winter featured the works of African American artists interwoven with European classics. Here are a few of the daring pairings. She wore Bantu knots; a white ruff […]
Dorie, Joyce and Bob: Remembering Dorie Ann Ladner
Dear Friends, The first time I met Dorie Ladner was at the March On! Festival in 2017 in the Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, D.C. She was part of a […]
Women’s History Month
Several newly published books are hitting the shelves and firing up the cultural conversation for Women’s History Month. I’m loving the sound of woman’s wisdom unearthing untold stories, highlighting honed […]
Raised In a Bubble of Love
“We were raised in a bubble of love.” That’s how Dr. Ilyasah Shabazz describes she and her siblings’ upbringing by their mother, Dr. Betty Shabazz, after the death of their […]
