EYE am Celebrating #Juneteenth2020 by giving a #ShoutOut to Public Enemy's "Fight the Power"

Opening up with video from the 1963 March on Washington, which was 100 years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, “Fight The Power” demonstrated a different type of march, one more aggressive and less polished and respectable. Instead of trying to show the white people that good black folks exist, Public Enemy took on the mantle of black nationalism and looking after our own, and taking what was owed. The imagery they conjure is nothing short of empowering and revolutionary. So on this Juneteenth 2020, the fight marches on in the streets of America in the aftermath of so many police shootings to the point where we have to say names of people we never met so frequently, that they’re all part of our beings. From George Floyd to Breonna Taylor, we must continue to fight the power.

#AlabamaHomeGirl Dr. Angela Davis "for such a time as this"

"Freedom is a constant struggle"

"This is an extraordinary moment," says legendary scholar Angela Davis. "One never knows when conditions may give rise to a conjuncture such as the current one, that rapidly shifts popular consciousness and suddenly allows us to move in the direction of radical change." pic.twitter.com/BKukKuKdzT

— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) June 12, 2020