Viral Video Shows the Extent of U.S. Wealth Inequality

Viral Video Shows the Extent of U.S. Wealth Inequality

Wealth inequality in the United States, also known as the “wealth gap”, refers to the unequal distribution of financial assets among residents of the United States. Wealth includes the values of homes, automobiles, businesses, savings, and...
Proved Fake: “I’m 83 and Tired”

Proved Fake: “I’m 83 and Tired”

Note: Apparently, this is a fake message attributed to Cosby……..Removing the name, what are your thoughts of what has been said? I’ve worked hard since I was 17. Except for when I was doing my National Service, I put in 50-hour weeks, and...
Django: The African mind (Re)chained

Django: The African mind (Re)chained

In light of its nomination and the proximity of the Oscars, the members of the Kwame Ture Society of Howard University have collaborated to write a serious critique of the film, Django: Unchained. With African-Deep Thought as our critical methodology, it is our hope...
Documentary: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth

Documentary: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth

Destroyed in a dramatic and highly-publicized implosion, the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex has become a widespread symbol of failure amongst architects, politicians and policy makers. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth explores the social, economic and legislative issues that...
Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States

Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States

Narrated by Oliver Stone, this new one-hour series features human events that at the time went under reported, but crucially shaped America’s unique and complex history. About The Series There is a classified America we were never meant to see. From Academy...

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration by Michelle Alexander

Legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues persuasively we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial segregation has been replaced by mass incarceration as a system of social control. —More African Americans are...