Of course there is no shortage of intelligent, well-spoken, informed Africans across the continent, but I have never seen/heard anyone in Africa (or anywhere) speak so clearly about international diplomatic relations; succinctly walked-through the historical trajectory of African liberation – individual nations and as a whole – and as it relates to current events. In… Read More Africa and the Global Legacy of Colonization
The harm caused by housing discrimination cannot be overstated. And while it’s generally not described as such in mainstream media and everyday conversation, it has been clear to me for many years that real estate continues to be the #1 tool for/of white supremacy in maintaining domination; functioning as the not-so-hidden-hand in continuing the enduring… Read More Redlining Realty: A funny and brutally honest parody
While it’s good that the Anthropocene is now formally acknowledged in the scientific world. Nevertheless, I believe the start date that was chosen is deceptive and wrong. Which is to say that that humans became the dominant force shaping life on this planet long before the arrival of “bomb” in the 1940’s and 50’s. Without going into… Read More Anthropocene Start Date of 1950’s Chosen by Scientific Community seems Innaccurate
The “Red Summer of 1919” is perhaps the climax of anti-Black massacres in the 20th century, which frequently included entire Black-inhabited and towns and communities being burnt to the ground or otherwise destroyed, with the typical justification being that a Black man in the town had assaulted a White woman living nearby. The (Jim Crow)… Read More Hidden History: The Price of Jim Crow and Black Genocides
Between 1880 to 1920, British colonial policies in India claimed more lives than all famines in the Soviet Union, Maoist China and North Korea combined. Read more.
[Editor’s Note: Occasionally The Autodidact’s Journal features a guest author. Joe Nalven is an artist and educator in San Diego, with a new book out entitled I And The Other: A Wicked Inquiry. In the following article Nalven explores ideas concerning potential and best scenarios for students in higher learning. The viewpoint expressed herein is… Read More Two Supreme Court Perspectives on Equitable Education
I usually get a look of surprise and disbelief when I tell someone I’m an artist and writer, and when they later find out that I also design furniture and architecture I wonder if they think I’m lying. Black people believe me, but often white people view me with skepticism our outright disbelief. Among other… Read More Yet Another Dilemma for the Big Black Man
LBJ talks with MLK at the White House (1966)… Read More MLK supported abortion and reproductive rights
Why We Can’t Be Free: The Inherent Dilemma by Robert A. De Dea John F. Kennedy once said, in a speech at the United Nations, “Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or… Read More Guest Commentary: Why We Can’t Be Free
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