Tagged with Black Panther

Colored People on TV

Long before the blockbuster movie, Black Panther blew up, earning more than $700 million at the box office in 2018  and sparking Black Panther parties (complete with regal costumes and the “Welcome to Wakanda” salutes offered in greeting) and decades before African-Americans held our heads a bit higher and walked a bit taller on the … Continue reading

Define Radical

When I was growing up in the late 1960s and early 1970s “radicalism” was a term tossed around quite often by politicians and the news media.  Often accompanied by footage of angry, long-haired Vietnam protesters or rampaging looters in places like Detroit, Newark, New Jersey, and Watts “radicals” came to represent all that was dysfunctional … Continue reading