Luqman Nation

Three GOP icons and Trump apologists who no one should be surprised continue to defend him.

So the media once again decides to paint all Black men with the broad brush of being traitors to the race because less than 20% of Black men who voted, voted for Trump. Let's get a few things straight about that narrative, including what they leave out, and let me make it clear why this Black woman will not ever play that evil game.

In what should have been a liberal landslide, Democrats' commitment to moderate liberalism crushed popular progressive policies and the candidate that brought them to the party, alienated progressive voters, and provided no policy answers to challenge a president who refused to protect people against a viral pandemic causing the needless deaths of over 230,000 citizens, making this an election tha...

Past is prologue, those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, rinse, repeat.

The GOP knows it is losing relevance in a changing demographic and political landscape in this country. So what better way to hold on to power than to control the interpretation of law for the next 40 years? If I could figure this out, why couldn't the Democrats, who could actually have done something to stop it?

People are clamoring to come up with a plan for politicians to woo Black voters. The Democrats nor the Republicans nor any celebrity has come up with a plan that contains any of these basic, bedrock, foundational demands for Black liberation set forth by the Vanguards of the Revolution, The Black Panther Party for Self Defense. If your plan for Black people doesn't have these elements in it, it's...

Rebroadcast of Pt 2 of a history series on Standing Rock done three years ago. As relevant today as it was then.

Rebroadcast of part 1 of a history series we did on Standing Rock done three years ago. As relevant today as it was then.

We don't celebrate Christopher Columbus or any of the colonized ideas that propelled his exploits. We celebrate Indigenous struggle and resilience, and an end to the colonization of the history of the world.

The Fly won the debate, Pence is a hollow soulless carcass, but Harris isn't much better. We ARE living in a horror show.

Jacquie and Abdus wax not always eloquently about the first presidential debate, our thoughts, and some extras about AFRICOM!

Well it's finally happened...Trump has contracted coronavirus. After lying about it and saying it would be gone by April and not providing any support for regular citizens to stop the spread of the virus and just not wearing a damned mask and encouraging others to make mask-wearing a point of "patriotism." What happens now? Some thoughts...and maybe some laughs...and some marching orders, as alway...

Fascism has always been a part of the American Experience for some of us. Declaring the teaching of that history racist only serves to cover up the everyday fascism that people think doesn't exist.

Oh...it was hilarious and horrible and you shouldn't have been surprised at any of it.

Did the candidates talk about this in the debate? Were there answers to address these issues? Did you expect any? Don't. Because politicians who benefit from the system as it exists will never call to dismantle that system. But the problem IS the system, more than it is the people who uphold it.

Mass arrests in Louisville included the legislator who wrote Breonna's Law. Coincidence? We think not.

When Joseph Biden crowed about "beating the Socialist" in the primaries, sure he meant Bernie Sanders (who isn't a whole Socialist), but really, he meant YOU.

People began idolizing Ruth Bader Ginsberg a few years ago when someone told the them the Supreme Court had some importance, but trying to make her a progressive hero doesn't erase some of her most harmful decisions and opinions, and it doesn't erase the gross malfeasance of the Democrats strategy regarding judicial appointments.

Democrats sue to remove Green Party candidates from ballots in Wisconsin and Texas, calculating they can win by denying voters the right to choose the candidate they want. But will this political calculus work out for them in November, and what will it produce for the Dems in the long term?

Black people have been looking for a safe space to just be in this country ever since we've been here; but for some reason, the same people who don't want to live around us and don't want us living around them, also don't want to let us have our own spaces. But we keep trying to create safe spaces for ourselves in the piece anyway. And we won't stop until we achieve them!

I apologize in advance for all MY terrible pronunciations, but at least I did more than play "Despacito," which is all Joe Biden did to reach out to Chicano voters during "Hispanic" Heritage Month. But it was actually much, much worse...

The effects of climate change are real, we can't imagine them away or run away from the fight. Are we going to fight for our lives, or are we doing to keep believing the politicians and THEIR LIES?

When we in the US are constantly admonished to "Never Forget" 9/11, what they don't want us to ever know is all of the horrible acts the US was involved in on so many 9/11s before 2001 that led to the only 9/11 we pay attention to. We had better stop ignoring how US imperialism destroys lives around the world.

While Julian Assange is facing what appears to be a sham of an extradition trial in the UK, the fate of independent journalism in the US also hangs in the balance.

People love to blame Trump on the rise of fascism in the US, but the young Chairman of the Chicago Chapter of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense Fred Hampton said back in 1968 that fascism will kill us all. If Hampton and the Panthers were fighting fascism then, what would have happened if instead of the fascist state killing him, Americans would have listened to him and fought the fascist s...