LDI Blog — Charisse Burden-Stelly

#15- Reflections on My First Black Agenda Report Essay Five Years Later

This week marks the five-year anniversary of the publication of my essay, “Why Claudia Jones Will Always Be More Relevant Than Ta-Nehisi Coates” in Black Agenda Report.

ReflectionsCharisse Burden-StellySeptember 22, 2022Black Agenda Report, Claudia Jones, Reflection

#14- Reflections on “Using Every Part of the Animal”

Everything you write can be published or circulated somewhere, so even if you end up scrapping a draft, section, or paragraph of a project, save it for future use.

Charisse Burden-StellySeptember 5, 2022writing, Syllabus, Mutual comradeship

#13- For Esther Cooper Jackson: Ten Timely Quotes from Black Communist Women

Today is Esther V. Cooper Jackson’s 105th revolutionary birthday, so naturally I’m thinking about Black communist women.

#12- The Clean Slate

Now that I’m in a new location, I have another “clean slate” opportunity to immediately establish good habits and routines to accomplish some writing and productivity goals.

Charisse Burden-StellyAugust 10, 2022Clean Slate, Productivity, Writing

#11- From the Archive: "Radical Blackness and the Struggle for Peace in the Black Liberation Movement"

In the epoch following the Second World War, radical Black activists associated durable peace with solidarity among progressives, workers, and the oppressed, and with the anti-systemic reorganization of society.

#10- Coaching Chronicles: Why I’m Training to Be a Higher Ed Coach

I am interested in becoming a higher ed coach focused on racialized graduate students, junior and mid-career faculty, and academic creatives for several reasons.

Charisse Burden-StellyJuly 22, 2022Coaching, Higher education

#9- Five Walter Rodney Quotes I Love

Walter Rodney was a prime example of the “guerilla intellectual”, a concept he introduced in Walter Rodney Speaks.

QuotesCharisse Burden-StellyJuly 14, 2022Walter Rodney, Rodneyist, Quotations

#8- From the Archive: "Ringing the Bell, Sounding the Horne"

When the Brown decision was handed down, the Second Red Scare had reached its zenith; the Communist Control Act was passed mere months after the Brown decision, in August 1954.

#7- On Joining an Organization

The question, then, is how do we engage in protracted, empowering, affirming mass struggle without organizations?

Charisse Burden-StellyJune 27, 2022Organization, radicalism, Erica Caines

#6- Toward a Theory of Mutual Comradeship

They were disciplined, ethical, principled, and honest not only because it was required of them, but because they seemed to understand love—from agape to philia to eros—as a cornerstone of revolution.

#5- The People's Summit for Democracy 2022

The People’s Summit conveyed that a meeting of states that did not include the people—women, labor, Black and indigenous peoples, social organizations, etc.—could not possibly take seriously issues like progress, peace, and prosperity.

#4- The Vagaries of the Edited Volume

Sometimes, the issues with an edited volume prove to be so intractable that it simply doesn’t come into fruition.

#3- A Recap of My Trip to Cali and Buenaventura, Colombia

Our delegation was historic and the first of its kind because it was all Black and racialized women/non-men.

Charisse Burden-StellyJune 4, 2022Colombia, Buenaventura, Cali, Elections, Francia Marquez, Pacto Historico

#2- An African Liberation Day Resource List

ALD provides a collective opportunity to recommit ourselves to political eduction, organizing, and sober analysis as our material conditions rapidly deteriorate and the need for a viable alternative becomes more urgent.

#1- Launch

The last dope intellectual blog is officially here.

Charisse Burden-StellyMay 16, 2022Radical Blackness, Launch, The Last Dope Intellectual, Taurus