"Wars in my name via WiFi while we fight in the comments section. Extinguishing tangible insurrection. We trigger each other with Twitter happy trigger fingers, while trigger happy cops kill…No end of Black. Lives….Matter. For those that survive it’s incarceration, indoctrination, gentrification."

Neoliberal capitalism feeds on discrimination and alienation. The system is not broken. It is ontologically flawed and working just fine. Contemporary black intellectuals strive for a non-sexist, non-homo and -trans-phobic, and non-racist seat at the table versus a construction of a new table.

To some readers what I have to say will be so painfully obvious that they would not even justify it with a “duh!” Others will need evidence. It is for them - and I was once one of them- that I write the details of my rude awakening to the...

When we talk about climate change and the actions we must take to address it, we usually rely on two concepts or areas of action: mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to the impacts of emissions we are unable to mitigate. In recent years, climate justice organizations in various...