When school pride becomes more important than human life, the problem goes far beyond a homecoming shooting. There is something profoundly disturbing happening within portions of the Delaware State University community, and it has absolutely nothing to do with where a television station or a newspaper placed a picture of the university in its coverage […]
A family should never have to associate a college homecoming with the night somebody they loved stopped coming home. On October 10, 2026, gunfire at Dover Commons, across from Delaware State University, left 22-year-old Nasir Cox dead and another young man wounded. Neither was a DSU student. According to local media citing Dover police, the […]
When my phone rang the other night, a recording played, alerting me that the incoming call was from the Illinois State Division of Corrections. Because state corrections officials have a history of moving inmates from facility to facility, I wasn’t sure which of the four Illinois inmates was calling. I hadn’t heard anything from any […]
It was a case that helped shape my path as a teen kid growing up in Baltimore City. Attending public school in the city was a challenging experience in 1980s Baltimore. That challenge was even more stringent for some kids who had to travel long distances to get to class, like I did. I auditioned […]
There are some images America doesn’t have the luxury of pretending aren’r controversial. Like a burning cross. A white hood. A Black body hanging from a tree. For generations, that final image was not merely a method of murder. It was a distinct message. Left where people could see it because terror required an audience. […]
There are those in power within our society who want to feed the public at large information an expect their official version of events to be the gospel. But in the case of Mumia Abu Jamal, to accept the official account of the killing of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner, one must accept a coincidence […]
Most people don’t even know who they are, and that’s probably a good thing, in a sense. They’re a group of educated Black women on a mission that no one else is willing to give countless hours of charitable time to. It’s all about numbers, and there’s one number that ought to stop people in […]
There are houses where people live, where people die, and then there are houses that seem to collect the missing. On West Chew Avenue in Philadelphia’s Olney section sits an ordinary-looking rowhouse that has become the center of something almost impossible to describe without sounding like fiction. For years, people walked past it, cars rolled […]
Listen to a short preview of the article https://youtu.be/XpzXLCAjAKA The moment Jeanetta Brantley made the noise clearer around a call recording, the noise around her character and her past became deafening. Brantley, an audio professional, took a publicly released marine-distress recording connected to the final hours of 18-year-old Nolan Wells and performed what she described […]
America often criticizes Black people for distrusting authorities, particularly in places such as Mississippi. But trust cannot be demanded while history remains unresolved. For generations, Black families have carried stories of people being threatened, abducted, murdered and buried without justice. This is not folklore. The FBI and Department of Justice have documented Mississippi cases in […]
