Othered: Karla Njathi
“How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers’ names, yet, we do not know them. Or if we...
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L1 Collective
- Feb 12, 2019
- 5 min
Two.
“Why may not the oppressed say, when an oppressor is dead, either by disease or by the hand of the foeman on the battlefield, that there...
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L1 Collective
- Feb 11, 2019
- 3 min
three.
Pictured here: Me. Prioritizing my light. Last night, at Jumuiya, we talked, over dinner, about how to preserve the light and joy in the...
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L1 Collective
- Sep 26, 2018
- 4 min
Making the Case for Charismatic Leadership: The Black Militant
It’s no secret that, over the years, a hierarchy within Black leadership has developed based on proximity to mainstream whiteness....
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L1 Collective
- Sep 4, 2018
- 4 min
Making the Case for Charismatic Leadership: The Black Intellectual
Charismatic leadership, though problematic when disconnected from the lived experience of the masses and when manifested as hierarchy, is...
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L1 Collective
- Aug 24, 2018
- 11 min
A World Beyond Survival Manifesto
The movement for Black liberation began in the early 1500s when Africans were lined up and prepared for Brazil by the Portuguese at slave...
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L1 Collective
- Jul 18, 2018
- 10 min
Off Principle, It’s On Sight: The Basis of Black Unity
As you read this, members of the African diaspora are subjected to the genocidal agenda of the white West. As you read this, Black people...
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L1 Collective
- May 25, 2018
- 4 min
Platonic Polygamy for Movement Sustainability
It is crucial that the ideology that fuels revolutionary struggle is centered in radical love and profound commitment. While...
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L1 Collective
- May 19, 2018
- 6 min
Building Generational Movements
The idea that the potency of white wealth and political power is a direct outcome of the exploitation of Black-indigenous/Black and...
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L1 Collective
- Nov 13, 2016
- 5 min
Open letter
This is an open letter to ALL Black community organizers, activists, leaders, and scholars. First of all, I love you for better or for...
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L1 Collective
- Oct 24, 2016
- 6 min
Confessions
I have often said that Black people, especially those of us in America, need time to move through phases that we may have already...
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L1 Collective
- Oct 18, 2016
- 2 min
OUR Dr. King
STOP using Dr. Martin Luther King and his work to justify or support your racist, classist, individualist arguments. "It would be fatal...
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L1 Collective
- Oct 18, 2016
- 2 min
Can You Live With That?
I feel so betrayed by my brothers and sisters who insist that it isn't their responsibility to combat systemic oppression. I ask them to...
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