Author: Adofo Minka
Implosion of St. Louis’s Black Girl Magic Trio: An Occasion for Celebration
Embattled Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner Pictured with St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones and Congresswoman Corie Bush during less politically tumultuous times (Credit, Rachel D. Rice)Many people are fascinated with watching buildings that are a danger to pu...
From Memphis to Jackson: The Truth About the Policing of Black People in the American South
From Memphis to Jackson: The Truth About Policing of Black People in the American SouthPhotos of the Black officers of the Memphis Police Department Videoed Beating Tyre Nichols, Credit: MPDWhether in Memphis, Tennessee or Jackson, Mississippi, the wor...
The Speech St.Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones Didn’t Make in Response to the School Shooting
This exercise in creative and political writing should not be misunderstood. I would never run for mayor or public office. This is not a practice run toward that end. Instead, it is another way of clarifying what the St. Louis mayor does and does not s...
Don’t Forget What Jackson’s Mayor Lumumba Called the “Civil Conspiracy” Before the Water Crisis
Jackson residents unload water during the city’s recent water crisis in Jackson that some now claim Wall Street caused.Recently, the nation was told Wall Street helped create Jackson’s water crisis. We must remember that Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba has ...
A Loyal Opposition to Mayor Tishaura Jones?:
A Loyal Opposition to Mayor Tishaura Jones?: St. Louis Jail Reform Coalition Makes ‘Demands’ on NobodySt. Louis City Justice CenterExplain, evade, and rationalize appears to be the chosen strategy of Mayor Tishaura Jones’s administration when addressin...
If White St. Louis Can Have Private Patrols, We Can Have Black Guards
Patrol car of St. Louis based private security firm The City’s Finest.Two of our people have just been killed by the police. Now, Black leaders, invented by the white rich are saying the number one racial disparity is that Black communities don’t have ...
They Are a Myth, They Don’t Exist: Stop Talking About Cooperatives in Jackson, Mississippi
There is a myth that has been spread far and wide, both nationally and internationally, that serious efforts are being made to democratize the economy in Jackson, Mississippi through a solidarity economy that is centered around the building of cooperatives. This is a myth because there could not be anything further from the truth. It has been spread since 2014 when the organization, Cooperation Ja...
They Are a Myth, They Don’t Exist: Stop Talking About Cooperatives in Jackson, Mississippi
There is a myth that has been spread far and wide, both nationally and internationally, that serious efforts are being made to democratize the economy in Jackson, Mississippi through a solidarity economy that is centered around the building of cooperat...
It Was Only a Matter of Time: St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones and the Killing of “Our People.”
It was only a matter of time before Mayor Tishaura Jones’s charade of being a criminal justice reformer and opponent of systemic racism would be exposed before the world. So many stood with this misty-eyed personality as she was sworn in as the first B...
Stop Being Slow: The New Jim Crow Must Go
On the twelfth anniversary of Michele Alexander’s book, The New Jim Crow (2010), the new freedom movement priority should be specifically to get rid of this confounded nonsense that a new Jim Crow exists in the new millennium, and this is the best way ...
Stop Being Slow: The New Jim Crow Must Go
On the twelfth anniversary of Michele Alexander’s book, The New Jim Crow (2010), the new freedom movement priority should be specifically to get rid of this confounded nonsense that a new Jim Crow exists in the new millennium, and this is the best way to characterize the contemporary system that keeps down Black people. The oppressive institutions that overwhelmingly keep down Black people, wherev...
The Black United Front is A Cruel Joke — I Know You Don’t Like to Be Told That
Recently, there have been murmurings among activists about establishing a Black united front (BUF) in solidarity with “the struggle” in Jackson, Mississippi amidst the turmoil of the water crisis facing the city’s residents. A BUF can be an organization, an idea promoting Black unity, or a movement coalition. It is not clear what those calling for a BUF around the Jackson city government wish to e...
- 1
- 2