Truth over convenience. The questions that lead to root causes.
Continuing the Conversation is a commentary column on The C.R.O.E. Report. It exists to ask the questions that go unasked, and to measure the promises that go unmeasured. Two recurring series carry the work: one pursues live stories past the surface; the other holds yesterday's promises against today's record. The premise is single: we cannot change our condition unless we change our way of thinking, so teaches the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. The work begins with our willingness to ask better questions, think critically, and measure honestly what we have already been given and what we have chosen.
On the anniversary of His birth, October 7, 1897: what He taught, what was built under His leadership, and why every Black man, woman, and child owes Him remembrance.
Read the Essay › Download the PDF ›On April 9, 1965, Muhammad Speaks published a two-panel cartoon by Eugene Majied asking whether a people with the means to build for themselves would keep asking to be admitted. The record of the sixty-one years since, measured against the program the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad set out as the alternative.
Read the Featured Essay ›Petitions are circulating across Chicago, and the only question most of us will be asked is which name to choose. On what Black voters and Black elected officials owe each other — support, money, standards — and the blueprint the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad left for both sides of that obligation.
Read the Essay ›We are not weak by nature. We have been put to sleep, and we must first wake up. On the duty of the Black man to know himself, discipline himself, produce, protect, and strengthen the brotherhood — grounded in the teachings of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
Read the Essay ›A measured accounting of the political system against the foundational promises it has never delivered to Black America — and the work the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad named while the marchers were still on the bridge.
Read the Essay ›A health emergency I should have prevented. A father who taught me that excuses are only good for the people who are saying them. A column built to refuse the trade of truth for convenience.
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