In the midst of the Coates phenomena I saw a call for people to buy copies of TaNehisi Coates' Between the World and Me at black bookstores. I found the suggestion laughable. The current s… Read More
Business makes money, and there's something about money that destabilizes black knowledge. It could be our original slave position-whack in relationship to money from the beginning. We all… Read More
Background: A Summary Of The Corporate Media's Treason Towards The People Over Bernie Sanders With Economist Robert ReichWhenever Hillary Clinton makes decisions people are hurt, become… Read More
A Representative from the Texas Attorney General’s office appeared in court Monday to argue that the State should not be held responsible in the lawsuit by the American Civil Rights Un… Read More
I spent the summer working at a black book store. Each day I entered a free black space. The experience was as revelatory as usual. Meanwhile, my youngest son matriculated in the root of f… Read More
The Free Black space response to TaNehisi Coates' "The Case for Reparations" published a little over two years ago in The Atlantic discussed African American activist writing as a form of i… Read More
Not too long ago, here in Wuhan, on a day whose weather I do not remember, as I passed a short row of grocery stores and restaurants on one of the main drags at the university, I recognized… Read More
Mount Timpanogos shot from Ray’s Lift at the Sundance Mountain Resort in Utah. Photograph, Ann Fisher.
At the Crossroads of Art and Nature
My stay at the Sundance Resort in late Septe… Read More
Today I sit in another abandoned sector of the empire. The Capitol View Library not far off of the D.C. landmark, the Shrimp Boat. Shrimp Boat where nobody really eats, but everybody knows… Read More
House Lawmakers late Wednesday Advanced a Provision that would Require the Pentagon to Report Attempts by Russian Actors to Hack its Systems.
The Amendment was introduced by Rep. Lou Correa… Read More
If you have ever attended a conference and wondered how you can translate a visionary statement like Cloud First (note: Absence of Mobile First), how does that strategy play out all the way… Read More
One thing about the West/Coates whatever-rich and famous throw down over whose the most authentic/activistic Negro while Trump is in the White House trying to pass a tax bill that will drama… Read More
The following post was published in April of 2015 on Free Black Space just two months before the publication of Between the World and Me. Part of the Free Black Space approach is to re… Read More
I am a Poet. I am an African American Poet.My son is a hip hop artist. He is eighteen years old.Much of my meditation these days is on the course of my son's development. H… Read More
Publishing this blog is a lot like rapping. When Chuck D, leader of Public Enemy, said Hip-Hop is Black America's CNN, he got at how beautiful and overlooked hip-hop can be. … Read More
It's been another rough day in Babylon as Ras would say. I say rough, but rough depends on how you look it at. Always a lot going on, but I guess it is how you look at it. How yo… Read More
I trust Kim Jong Un about as far as I can pickup Trump and throw him."Pompeo mum on Kim Jong Un meeting amid confirmation process" PBS NewsHour 4/18/2018ExcerptSUMMARY: CIA director an… Read More
Nominados a los Premios Eisner 2018
Este es el listado de los Nominados a los Premios Eisner 2018. Destacan las nominaciones de varias obras y autores españoles, donde sorprende ver… Read More
Here at Free Black Space we revel in the Free Black. When we say that we mean free exchange of ideas, under radar, in the familiar/unfamiliar places, and we mean the people like those… Read More
There's nothing perfect about China, but it sure is inspiring. For people in the world who know underdevelopment, gentrification or the economics of oppression it is at least worth a look.&n… Read More
Ganadores Premios Eisner 2018
MEJOR HISTORIA CORTA
“Ethel Byrne”, Cecil Castelluci y Scott Chantler, en Mine: A Celebration of Liberty and Freedom for All Benefiting Planne… Read More
I pitched an article to a few magazines not too long ago on China functioning as a new mother country for folks in Africa. African Americans and Americans often miss the obvious. … Read More
The Acting Chief, Kelu Chao, of the United States Agency for Global Media has Fired the Leaders of Multiple Federally Funded News Outlets, as part of the Biden Administration’s sweepin… Read More
In more than a Decade of pushing Companies to Disclose their Political Spending, the New York State Common Retirement Fund has never had a year like this.
The nearly $250 Billion Pension F… Read More
Ian Coates, a school caretaker in his 60s, has been named as the third victim killed in the knife and van attacks in Nottingham city centre. He was stabbed to death in Magdala Road after uni… Read More