Published inPan-African Voice·PinnedMember-onlyDr. Umar Johnson and the Fine Art Of Black Male BashingIn 1994 political analyst and media critic Dr. Earl Ofari Hutchinson wrote a book entitled The Assassination of the Black Male Image (1994), in which he offered a searing and controversial indictment of America’s attitudes toward Black men. The Black male image, Hutchinson opined, has been battered, maligned, and assaulted…Black Men2 min readBlack Men2 min read
Published inPan-African Voice·Sep 17Member-onlyRACE, GENDER, SEX AND COLLEGE FOOTBALL: THE CURIOUS CASE OF MEL TUCKER AND BRENDA TRACYMel Tucker’s rise as a big-time college football head coach was long overdue, as Black men have historically and contemporarily been excluded from the sport's highest echelon. Nevertheless, Tucker’s over twenty-year coaching career is in peril, due to what many opine, is Tucker’s alleged cretin-like judgment rather than the peccadillo…College Football3 min readCollege Football3 min read
Published inPan-African Voice·Sep 16Member-onlyI am American, not African American, Raven Symoné and the Question of IdentityAs a professor of African-American history, there are several issues that I seek to address with my students concerning the study of African-American history and historiography. This week, my class and I discussed the importance of studying the African background. In doing so, I played an excerpt from a speech…African American2 min readAfrican American2 min read
Published inPan-African Voice·Sep 4Member-onlyUnapologetic Blackness is Coming, and It’s Here To Stay! The Case of Deion SandersDeion Sanders is special! He is a former NFL Defensive Player of the Year, a first-ballot NFL Hall of Famer, and universally regarded as the greatest cornerback ever to play the game of football. Moreover, he is the only man to play in the Super Bowl and the World Series…College Football2 min readCollege Football2 min read
Published inPan-African Voice·Aug 18Member-onlyWhy Marcus Garvey Matters!!!Why Marcus Garvey Matters!!! The world that Marcus Garvey entered at the turn of the 20th century was a far cry from the African world that his Pan-African predecessors dreamed of (David Walker, Martin Delany, Henry McNeal Turner). As Nineteenth-century Pan-Africanist efforts, which focused on racial uplift, Christian evangelicalism, and…History5 min readHistory5 min read
Published inPan-African Voice·Aug 13Member-onlyAn Open Letter to Hip-Hop (I Used to Love H.E.R)Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop. What would the world be without you? This weekend you turned 50 years old. I met you when I was four years old, and I can still vividly recall falling in love with you on two occasions. The first was when my big brother allowed me to…Hip Hop3 min readHip Hop3 min read
Aug 3Member-onlyWhy I Do Not Care About Stephen A. Smith’s Comments About Kim KardashianLess than a week ago, my ideological big brother Dwayne Omowale wrote a scathing piece https://medium.com/@dwomowale/stephen-a-smiths-comments-about-kim-kardashian-further-expose-his-character-80fc7572b44a repudiating the alleged disconcerting and sexist tweet of ESPN analyst Stephen A. Smith. …ESPN2 min readESPN2 min read
Published inPan-African Voice·Aug 3Member-onlyWere Classical Pan-Africanist Eurocentric?Classical Pan-Africanism, according to William Jeremiah Moses, is defined as an ideology whose goal was the creation of an autonomous Black nation-state with definite geographical boundaries somewhere in Africa. Classical Pan-Africanism, also known as Proto-Pan-Africanism, is considered to have originated during the drive for self-determination in the 1600s; moving on…History3 min readHistory3 min read
Published inPan-African Voice·Jul 31Member-onlyWhy David Walker and his Appeal Matters!David Walker (1796–1830) was a free-born African American (due to his mother being free, his father was enslaved), an outspoken abolitionist, writer, Pan-Africanist, and anti-slavery activist, who used his freedom to advance the cause of his enslaved brothers and sisters. Walker's seminal and timeless treatise David Walker’s Appeal to the…Pan Africanism2 min readPan Africanism2 min read
Published inPan-African Voice·Jul 14Member-onlyWhy Affirmative Action is White“The battlefront is everywhere, there is no sheltered rear.” Paul Robeson (1898–1976) The Black past teaches us that periods of racial progress in America, whether real or perceived, are followed by periods of racial retrenchment. For example, the Reconstruction Era (1865–1877) resulted in the Nadir of Race relations, the Civil…Supreme Court3 min readSupreme Court3 min read
