Racism and white supremacy are often presented as masculine expressions. The public face of the ideology in most recent times is the Proud Boys. In the past, it was the Klansman. These presentations often erase the complicity of white women in maintaining the system of white supremacy. However, the rise…

On a warm sunny afternoon in New Orleans, I sat down with Judge Arthur Hunter (Ret.) to discuss his platform and campaign to become the next District Attorney of Orleans Parish. Hunter, presents with a soft-spoken mild-mannered demeanor, but underneath those character traits is a man passionate about reforming…

African American movements for equality have long been entrenched in the Black church. The Black church has produced some of Black Americas most prolific and profound leaders such as Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, Rev. Martin Luther King, Rev Jesse Jackson and Rev. Ralph Abernathy. In fact, the leading civil rights…

Special jurisdictional acts waived the United States of America’s sovereign immunity and allowed Native American tribes to file suit against the government for “money damages for a Fifth Amendment taking of recognized (or reservation) title to a particular lands or; for the cession of land to the Federal Government for…

On May 25th, an African American man, named George Floyd, in Minnesota became the latest in a long list of African Americans to be killed by American law enforcement. In a nearly nine minute video, Officer Derek Chauvin can be seen kneeling on the neck of Floyd, who repeats “please…

‘Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our…

Part one: Let’s get this out of the way Donald Trump must go. His administration has proven to be destructive and divisive. He has courted white supremacists and Wall Street and bedded them together in a ménage à trois of greed, guns, and pu**y grabbing. He has made incompetence look…

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, I have been compiling ethnographic research on the effects of the disease on various aspects of culture. My work has been primarily in New Orleans, which was, at one point, an epicenter for the disease in the United States. I have examined my…

“We know this place, For we have seen it more times than we’d like to imagine”- Sunni Patterson Here we are again. This place is eerily familiar. It is as if we are experiencing a death drenched deja vu. Another black body sacrificed on the altar of white aggression. Another…