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Will Globalization Destroy Black America ?

October 4, 2007 By Phillip Jackson, Executive Director The Black Star Project

The lack of response to globalization by Black America is frightening and troubling. While much of the world has adapted to the new-world economy and new-world standards of existence, most of Black America is still operating much the same way it did in the 1950s and 1960s. But now, throughout Black communities in America , there is a whisper campaign by Black... (continue reading)

In the 1950's, while African nations were fighting for and achieving independance from colonial powers and the civil rights movement was under way in the United States, Afro-Brazilains were also experiencing racism and many were living in deplorable conditions in favelados, or shanty towns of makeshift shelters made of discarded metal, cardboard and other scraps. These areas often had no running water and little or no electricity.

The story of Carolina Maria de Jesus is an... (continue reading)

There is and has been much controversy surrounding The Willie Lynch Letter. Some years ago I took a course that covered several movements, from women's suffrage movement and feminism to the civil rights movement and others. During the course of the discussion the subject of the Willie Lynch Letter entered the debate and at this time I took the opportunity to ask the instructor about the document. Her response was that it was her belief that the letter, which is a text of a speech given on... (continue reading)

The Souls of Black Folk

By, W.E.B. Dubois

From Chapter 1 - Of Our Spiritual Strivings

"Between me and the other world there is an ever unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? they say... (continue reading)

Mama,

Papa,

and us

10 kids

lived in

a single room.

Once, when I

got sick

and like to die,

I heard a cry

slice through the gloom

"Hotdog!

We gon have

mo room!"

Who is not a stranger still

even after making love,

or the morning after?

The interlude of sleep again divides

it is clear again where one body

ends and the next begins,

Think to think at each encounter,

we will be strangers still

after making love

and long conversation,

even after meals and showers

together

and years of touching .

It is not often that the core

of what I... (continue reading)