a journey of transformation
“It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
-Assata Shakur
…Rachel R. Hardeman is but one manifestation of that problem. I started writing this last December after back to back articles centering her were published. I was sick of it. She wreaked havoc on my mental and financial health, along with many others, yet there she was smiling and being praised for her “work.” I…
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It’s been 10 months since the start of the genocide of Palestinians…It’s been 10 years since Mike Brown was killed by police. The issues are deeply intertwined.
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This week marks exactly 100 years since the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. A massacre that devastated a thriving Black community, that stripped people of their wealth and their futures, and that served as yet another reminder of the violence of white supremacy. But Tulsa didn’t mark the beginning or the end of this type…
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As I’ve been working towards my PhD, one thing that’s often struck me is the way in which white researchers, white academics, write about issues that affect Black people. Even some of the authors that I think have a decent racial analysis, who discuss the ways in which structural racism operates to create systems of…
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like black butterflies 