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Obadiah Mailafia Published 31 May 2021By the “Nigerian Dilemma”, I am referring to the ethno-sectarian divide that defines the perennial conflict, violence and nebulous between North and South – between Muslims and Christians in our country. It has virtually become Nigeria’s national curse; colouring every aspect of its political and human development. I echo the famous work on race in America by the Swedish economist and Nobel laureate, Gunnar...

A co-founding member of the band Mumps (with the late Lance Loud of PBS An American Family fame), Hoffman has been associated with a spectacular line-up of influential musical acts including Klaus Nomi, Lydia Lunch, Kid Congo Powers, Ann Magnuson, El Vez, Prince Poppycock and countless others. The previously mentioned Mumps are getting the special reissue treatment with Rock & Roll This, Rock & Roll That: Best Case Scenario, Youve Got Mumps (Omnivore), a single disc 23-track compilation inclu...

Eldridge Cleaver himself describes the progression of this crisis in white masculinity in the chapter of Soul on Ice titled, "The White Race and Its Heroes." According to Cleaver, by the time the 1960s rolled around, whites were becoming disillusioned with their heroes (90). The successes of national liberation movements in the Third World resulted not only in the formation of new subjectivities among people of color, it forced white men to reevaluate themselves and their identities (Cleaver 9...

from the magazine The Case for Black Patriotism An African-American professor looks at the United States and sees the greatest force for human liberty on the planet. The Social Order Editor’s note: The following is an edited version of a lecture delivered in a webinar at Arizona State University’s School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership on February 1. There is a fashionable standoffishness characteristic of much elite thinking about blacks’ relationship to Ame...

Manhattan Beach City Council rejects apology regarding Bruce’s Beach SHARE by Mark McDermott  Nearly three hours of public testimony had already occurred at Tuesday night’s Manhattan Beach City Council meeting before councilmembers took up the question of whether or not to issue an apology to the Bruce family and other Black families displaced by the City from their beachfront homes a century ago.  Several more hours of testimony had been taken at the March 23 council meeting. For month...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, ca. 1900. Photo: C. F. Lummis. Restoration by Adam Cuerden. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. When I first read “The Yellow Wall-Paper” years ago, before I knew anything about its author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, I loved it. I loved the unnerving, sarcastic tone, the creepy ending, the clarity of its critique of the popular nineteenth-century “rest cure”—essentially an extended time-out for depressed women. The story had irony, urgency, anger. On the l...

Share: The celebration of Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ reflects the continued priority of elite preferences over the needs and struggles of ordinary people. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents  Isabel Wilkerson  In the late 1940s, the Cold War was heating up. In the United States, anticommunism had reached a fever pitch at the same time that antiblack violence had forcefully re-emerged in the form of lynching and race riots. At this auspicious moment, Lincoln University historical socio...

All, there is a sense there is a kind of voter that related to biden a bit sees him as a regular person even in his views on race over time. whats going on inside this democratic race right now? where do you see it? >> i have no idea whats going on inside the democratic party. i do think long-term this is problematic for joe biden. the idea youre going to pull out segregationist to talk about, you know, how we should deal with the negro problem and using chains and bullets and guns, the problem ...

Trumps relationship to strife. this was his approach in his first year. >> i think theres blame on both sides. you look at both sides, i think theres blame on both sides and i dont have any doubt about it and you dont have any doubt about it either. >> that was a response to white supremacist violence. now i want to play another president who also had a questionable racial record but how he responded in a moment of a national test, after violence in selma. >> there is no negro problem, there is ...

>> now, i appreciate so much your point here about having your voice heard. weve been talking a bit about how in this war on women, that part of the issue is we dont get the opportunity to hear womens voices. and it was part of the power of your testimony soy wanted to ask you. there was an article that caught my eye this week in the texas observer called "one womans ordeal with the texas new sonogram law." obviously you were managing an issue around contraception access. this is about the sonog...