I campaign on behalf of Obama because his candidacy is a welcomed watershed in American political and emotional culture. Locke observed in The New Negro, 1925, that African Americans were often described as a problem, “something to be argued about, condemned or defended, to be ‘kept down,’ or ‘in his place,’ or ‘helped up,’ [...]

Welcome to one of many events that have been taking place all over the Americas in the realization of what I have been calling the emerging black Enlightenment.
In terms of the very modest contribution of the philosophy Born of Struggle Association to this enterprise we have been trying to develop themes over the [...]

Introduction
C.L.R. James once opened a talk by stating, “Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, Black Power.” I begin today by saying Ladies and Gentlemen, Walter Rodney and Heresy. J. Peter Euben writes about the tragedy of political theory. Euben’s tragedy refers to tragic texts in the history of canonical professional political theory and [...]

A Brief Manifesto on the Re-Education of Struggle Un-Resigned
Learn what’s not taught, listen to what’s not heard, remember what’s forgotten, and speak what requires courage; these are the simple duties of intellectuals in struggle. Frederick Douglass speaking on the Fourth of July, Anthony Benezet preaching on Thanksgiving Day, or Ella Baker counseling students. [...]

Reflections on Childhood and Philosophy
Every person who has ever lived on the face of the earth started out life as a little child. This is so obvious a fact, it seems hardly worth mentioning. But that’s the problem. We don’t mention it and we don’t think about it – certainly not when [...]

Literature, Culture and Contracts
This symposium issue is devoted to articles about teaching contract law. It is a topic broad enough to cover philosophy, methodology as well as substantive law. In some ways, the topic recognizes that there is a relationship among these areas of concern – the way you think about teaching may alter the [...]

Welcome to our Sixth Philosophy Born of Struggle Conference and special gratitude to many of you who I recognize have been attending since our inaugural meeting in 1994.
These series of conferences arose from an acute need for a national forum for those working within the Black philosophical tradition to wrestle with issues [...]