Actually we've had a black bourgeoisie or the makings of a black bourgeoisie for many more decades.In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black….

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and wit….

It doesn't surprise me that aspect of the black nationalist movement, the cultural side, has triumphed because that is the aspect of the movement tha….

Obviously there are some organizations that go out on the street and say we want an end to the capitalist system. But obviously that is not going to ….

I think it’s the right moment to talk about it because it is part of a revolutionary perspective - how can we not only discover more compassionate re….

It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it….

We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by it. As a matte….

Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetim….

We still have to struggle against the impact of racism, but it doesn't happen in the same way. I think it is much more complicated today than it ever….

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempti….

A fair trial would have been no trial at all..

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers..

Our leaders were assassinated, one of the things I was reading today was - 28 Panthers were killed by the police but 300 Black Panthers were killed b….

There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery, the aftermath of slavery, th….

I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to….

in this society, dominated as it is by the profit-seeking ventures of monopoly corporations, health has been callously transformed into a commodity -….

But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories f….

Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various ….

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending….

The early feminist argument that violence against women is not inherently a private matter, but has been privatized by the sexist structures of the s….

I can't really blame a lot of young sisters and brothers who believe that education has anything to offer them. Because as a matter of fact, it has n….