Brother Jesse

All rituals have a principle that is to be extracted and applied, but sometimes the principles get lost, overlooked or outright ignored in the midst of us celebrating our respective “holidays” in the various religious sects.

This is very disheartening. No, this is sickening. America’s injustice … ahem, justice system has run its course.  For the fourth time, the clock is ticking on the life of Georgia death row inmate Troy Anthony Davis. 

It has been greatly disturbing to read about what has taken place in downtown Oslo, Norway and at an offshore youth camp. This is horrible. The bombing is reminding people of the Oklahoma City attack led by the homegrown non-Muslim terrorist Timothy McVeigh.  

(Note: I dedicate this to Dr. Henry Louis Gates)---@BrotherJesse Op-Ed By Abdul Arif Muhammad, Esq.In an April 23, 2010 Op-Ed piece for The New York Times entitled “Ending the Slavery Blame-Game,”

I was just 19 years old when it happened but by that time I understood the racial dynamics of the United States. June 7 marked the 12th anniversary of the dragging murder of James Byrd, Jr., in Jasper,

(Bryonn Bain is Brooklyn's own prison activist, spoken word poet, hip hop artist, actor, author and educator. His one-man show "Lyrics From Lockdown" is coming to Houston on April 5 at the University