Required Reading
- What’s Your Problem with Joe Biden?
- Dirty Rubles: An Introduction to Trump/Russia (My New Book)
- Youth for the President
- A Summary of the Conspiracy Against the United States
- Trump: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 3)
- Postcards from the Resistance, Vol. 8: Mother of All
- From Lance Armstrong to Trump: The Rise & Fall of the Deified Narcissist
- Reading Malcolm X in Texas
- Playing the Donald Trump Game
- President Rapist: Women Under Trump
- An Open Letter to My Fellow Liberals
- The Democrats Can’t Win If They Won’t Fight
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Author Archives: Judy Juanita
Report from The Front: Berkeley, CA
From Emmett Till to Berkeley CA, Judy Juanita on how America’s most liberal city still channels racism. Continue reading
De Facto Feminism, Or More Power to the Candy Lady
De Facto feminists, black women fighting/finding contingency, building bridges, breaking bread, all in a country that counts them out. Judy Juanita tallies up all the ways feminism finds its way. Continue reading
The N-Word
In an age of trigger warnings and Justin Bieber’s N-Word Gate, Judy Juanita comes out for the word. With qualifications, considerations – and calling it on white cops. Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Politics
Tagged August Wilson, fences, George Jefferson, J-Lo, James Earl Jones, judy juanita, Justin Bieber, the n word
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Cleaning Other People’s Houses
Cleaning houses was never what Judy Juanita was raised to do. That was for mothers, aunts, grandmothers… not her. Not a college-educated black woman. Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Politics
Tagged domestics, house cleaning, race, The Color Purple, Zora Neale Hurston
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The Gun as Ultimate Performance Poem
In the wake of Trayvon Martin, Judy Juanita looks at the gun’s dark power and role in the African American community from the Panthers to the present. Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged Black Panther Party, bobby seale, Eldridge Cleaver, George Zimmerman, huey newton, Stagecoach Mary, Trayvon Martin
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Five Comrades in The Black Panther Party, 1967-1970
Judy Juanita on joining the Black Panthers and revisiting the movement now some 40 years later Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged Black Panthers, bobby seale, huey newton, judy juanita, oakland, Virgin Soul
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