Notes on Ogunian Anarchism: A Meditation for Hoodoo Heritage Month
Sparked by D'Angelo's grounding excursion to South Carolina—where my people're from—and recorded partly in Cuba—the homeland of Lukumí—Voodoo was my introduction to the rapturous possibilities of Ogunian anarchism before I had the language to describe it.
Our resistance, our radicalism, our resilience, and our revolutionary thought reflect the long tradition of Southerners who have struggled against slavery, Jim Crow apartheid, structural anti-blackness, and capitalist exploitation.
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ATLANTA — The director of the city's police academy is under internal investigation connected to domestic violence allegations from a Barrow County dispute and was temporarily relieved of duty and stripped of his gun and badge. The estranged wife of Atlanta Police Training Academy Director Ailen Mitchell received a protection order against him earlier this…
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We are kin, not by crime or country, but by the fierce, shared knowing that we were always more than where they tried to put us.
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High John, Ole Massa and De Indigo Deer
On one of them back break'n plantations down in the lowcountry is where John lived. Where field hands, from sun up to sun down, picked sea island cotton and rice sheafs till their hands bled numb.
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