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.
The recent decision to move the criminal trial of Johannes Mehserle – the former BART officer who shot and killed Oscar Grant on New Years Day – to Los Angeles has once again thrust the city to the forefront of controversy involving police abuse and murder.
When the L.A. Times runs a story on a missing black woman on the front page of its local features section it stimulates inquiring minds.
Jeopardy question—what do the names Ensign, Craig, Sanford, and Duvall all have in common? Eureka!
To say that most of Oakland, CA and the rest of us breathed a collective sigh of relief June 4 after hearing that Johannes Mehserle, the former Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) cop who shot unarmed Oscar Grant in the back on New Year’s Day, would be bound over for trial on the charge of murder, is not a worn-out cliche.
Recently on the campus of the University of Alabama, members of Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) sorority were meeting to celebrate their anniversary when, lo and behold, a white fraternity’s parade stopped in front of their house. The frat boys were wearing Confederate uniforms and carrying the Confederate battle flag.
To my Same Gender Loving/ lesbian and gay sistahs and brothas: you need to hollah at me.
You don’t have to tell me who you are: I already know. You are my parents, my siblings, my children, my grandbabies.
I know where you live – right next door. I know where you work [...]
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 [...]
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