Writing – DR. Rosa Alicia Clemente

#EbonyDebate The 2016 Elections – Time to Go Green

Rosa Clemente — Sun, 30 Oct 2016 17:12:58 +0000

In this print-exclusive Ebony Magazine article, Rosa Clemente makes a forceful case for thinking outside of the two boxes. View the pdf.

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PBS Column: For The Gop, Making America Great Is For The Rich, White And Male

Rosa Clemente — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 15:46:00 +0000

Article written by Rosa Clemente First published by PBS NewsHour When the United States Constitution was fully ratified on June 21, 1788, neither white women, black women nor black men were considered full citizens of this nation. In fact black people, free or enslaved, would be considered three-fifths of a human being after the 1857 landmark decision known as the Dred Scott Case by the U.S.

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PBS Column: The Democratic Party is Not What It Seems

Rosa Clemente — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 15:40:03 +0000

Article written by Rosa Clemente First published by PBS NewsHour I left the Democratic Party in 2000. At that time, I got the chance to hear Ralph Nader speak while he was running as the Green Party presidential candidate. He exposed so much for me. Having spent five years prior working at the New York State Assembly as an aide, I got to know the underbelly of not just New York State politics...

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Ferguson: Police Draw Guns on Rosa Clemente, Talib and Others

Rosa Clemente — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 18:36:53 +0000

An hour ago, a group including poet Jessica Care Moore, Talib Kweli, folks from the Fellowship of Reconciliation, Philip Agnew of the Dream Defenders, Bgyrl ForLife Malik from Occupy the Hood, Trymaine Lee from MSNBC and many others were chased like animals by the cops. As we ran to get away, we found ourselves on a small path on a bridge, surrounded by police from various units and told to lie...

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I Will Never Be Scared of Zionists

Rosa Clemente — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 05:01:40 +0000

I am getting messages from concerned friends about my stance on Israel. Let me be clear I have been fighting Zionists since my days at SUNY-Albany, when I was in Albany State University Black Alliance, when I was president of ASUBA and when I was director of multi-cultural affairs for the Student Government. In that last leadership role I kicked Religious Zionists of America (RZA) out of the...

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Interview with Chokwe Lumumba

Rosa Clemente — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 15:28:16 +0000

After Chokwe Lumumba was elected mayor of Jackson, MI on June 4th, 2013, Rosa Clemente sat down to interview the community-organizer, human rights lawyer, and mayor-elect. He reflected on the role of local electoral politics, human rights activism, strategic alliances, reproductive rights, and community control over the policies and structures that affect their lives. On February 25th, 2014...

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The 3.6 Billion Dollar Nickel Bag

Rosa Clemente — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 21:41:34 +0000

A new report from the ACLU reveals troubling racial biases and spending in the ‘war on marijuana’. Weed. Ganja. Yerba Buena. Pot. President Barack Obama admits to having smoked it in his younger days like President Bill Clinton before him. While we have long since known that those of us who look like the current POTUS are four times more likely to be arrested for marijuana-related offenses than...

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Why Did Kimani Gray Have to Die?

Rosa Clemente — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:28:27 +0000

Carol Gray, the mother of 16-year-old Kimani Gray, tearfully addressed reporters last week following the shooting death of her son at the hands of two NYPD officers. Kimani’s killing is not just a case of police brutality, it is yet another example of the ongoing human rights violations against mostly Black and Latino/a young people in New York and cities across the country. The NYPD officers who...

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Not Ready To Die But Wanting To Die: Depression, Hip Hop and the Death of Chris Lighty

Rosa Clemente — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 21:13:38 +0000

Right now I should be finishing a paper for my independent study. But I just heard the news about Chris Lighty’s death. Though I never meet him, being part of the Hip Hop village, I always heard good things about him. Reading my sister, Joan Morgan’s, one word post on Facebook, “devastated”, I broke down and thought, another possible suicide in our village. Why is this happening? All of us living...

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Why President Elect Barack Obama is Not the First Hip Hop President

Rosa Clemente — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:02:05 +0000

It has been 45 days since the Hip Hop generation helped usher in the first Black male President of the United States of America. Since that historic night, many within Hip Hop culture, like writer Greg Kot of the Boston Globe, entrepreneur Russell Simmons, artists Common, Jay-Z and P. Diddy, have declared President-Elect Obama the first Hip Hop president. In my humble opinion they are wrong...

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