George Yancy and Noam Chomsky: The Roots of American Racism
This is the eighth in a series of interviews with philosophers on race that I am conducting for The Stone. This week’s conversation is with Noam Chomsky, a linguist, political … Continue reading
Video: Amiri Baraka reads “Somebody Blew up America”
“Somebody Blew Up America” by Amiri Baraka with Rob Brown on saxophone, recorded on February 21, 2009 at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy NY. This is the poem … Continue reading
Video: Maya Angelou recites “And Still I Rise”
In this video, Professor Angelou recites the title poem from her volume of poetry And Still I Rise, published in 1978. Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 … Continue reading
John Samuel Tieman: Ferguson and the We-ness of Transition
All we have is anger and sadness. On the front page of Friday’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch was a story of two policemen shot in Ferguson. There was also a huge photograph … Continue reading
Marta Daniels: Justice is a Black Woman — The Amazing Constance Baker Motley
You may not know her name, but you have been affected by the legal battles she won and the precedents she set that helped shape civil rights, women’s rights and … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: Malcolm X Was Right About America
We are the nation Malcolm knew us to be. Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Malcolm X, unlike Martin Luther King Jr., did not believe America had a conscience. … Continue reading
Doug Anderson: The Way Back
. Dear American left (what left? who’s left?): could it be that while we were stamping our feet in righteousness the Right ran off with the store? Could it be … Continue reading
John Samuel Tieman: Report From Ground Zero, St. Louis
I’m reminded of a photograph I once saw of Hiroshima. Not the explosion, but the day after. That’s what today feels like in my St. Louis neighborhood. A few … Continue reading
Christy Ulmet: After prison, recapturing lost years of motherhood
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By Christy Ulmet Three years after being released from prison, Lashonia Etheridge-Bey sat in a booth at a breakfast place, reminiscing on her relationship with…
Video: Why are so many black people in prison?
When the prison system is designed not to provide “correction” but to create felons who are then second-class citizens forever, and when those prisons are holding hugely disproportionate numbers of … Continue reading
Video: Ferguson activists interrupt St. Louis Symphony with Requiem for Michael Brown
Attendees at Saturday night’s performance of the St. Louis Symphony were treated to an addition to the evening’s scheduled program when a flash mob of protestors serenaded the audience with … Continue reading
Video: Stubborn as a Mule
Dr. Cornell West makes an historical and ethical argument for justice in this award-winning film.
Bob Herbert: The Fire This Time
I remember the stunned reaction of so many Americans back in the summer of 2005 when legions of poor black people in desperate circumstances seemed to have suddenly and inexplicably … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: Barack Obama’s Terrifying Otherness
GOP letter to Iran is not about treaty but about undermining the legitimacy of President Obama. Republicans, and Democrats for that matter, have every right to make public their opposition … Continue reading →