Urban Thought Collective

About Me:

Thandisizwe Chimurenga is a community journalist and activist. She can be heard usually the last Thursday of the month on "Some of Us Are Brave: A Black Women's Radio Program" on KPFK - Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles. She is also the Director of the Ida B. Wells Institute, a leadership development and media training program for Black women and girls.

From Algeria to Zanzibar, the struggle of African nations to free themselves from brutal colonialism in the 60s and 70s deeply affected folks in the Black Liberation Movement here in the U.S.
We drew inspiration from and stood in militant solidarity with these struggles and celebrated their victories. These movements brought into ‘consciousness’ scores of […]

“He need his ass beat.”
That’s the first thing I thought when I saw the video recently of a man punching a girl in a South L.A. McDonald’s.
A teenaged girl, who posed absolutely no physical threat to a grown man, laid out flat … as if in a boxing ring.
No dialog can be heard […]

Troy Anthony Davis is scheduled to be executed on Monday, October 27th, 2008. Convicted of the 1991 murder of a Savannah, GA police officer, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay of execution approximately two hours before Davis was set to be put to death September 23rd in order to review defense claims that […]

As the world watched Barack Obama accept the Democratic Party’s nomination for President of the United States, another Black man was also being watched. “Animal Planet,” part of the Discovery Channel cable network, kicked off its ‘Animal Witness’ investigative series with the story of Michael Vick.
The former Atlanta Falcons quarterback, once one of the highest […]

Kevin Wicks, a 38-year old father of two, was murdered by the Inglewood Police Department on Monday, July 21 in California. Gainfully employed by the United States Postal Service for almost 20 years, he was said to have raised/pointed a gun at police officers who had come to his apartment building.
A caller […]