In my more militant youth, I used to argue that May 19 should have been a national holiday. And if it couldn’t be one, then at the least I could sacrifice a day of school or work to commemorate Malcolm X’s birthday. In retrospect, that was stupid (maybe immature is the better word) because if Read More
For weeks, Aaron McGruder’s been promoting clips of an upcoming “Hunger Strike” episode of his animated series, The Boondocks, and it looks like more of the same acerbic derision of Black culture that viewers have come to expect. Whether he’s poking fun at “lazy,” “loafing” New Orleans residents displaced by Katrina, the suits and the Read More
