Stop Putting Black Trauma on Display
The recent media exploitation of the Tyre Nichols killing was dehumanizing. Media should focus their efforts on exposing policy inaction after years of proven brutality against our communities.
Category: Black Lives Matter
The Jackson Water Crisis Proved Again that Environmental Justice is Racial Justice
Let’s call it what it is: Generations of environmental racism. It’s time for voters to demand lawmakers prioritize a baseline of clean water, proper sanitation and clean air for all families no matter their ZIP code.
I’ve Been Marching With BLM for Seven Years, It is a Nonviolent Movement
I couldn’t say how many Black Lives Matter marches, speeches, talks and fundraisers I have attended in New Mexico and South Carolina. We’ve been hitting the streets since 2014, shortly…
Let’s Keep Each Other Safe by Banding Together for a National Day of Action, Oct. 22
We all deserve to live in a country where we are safe in our homes, at our places of work, and all the places in between. But for a long…
Introducing The Flag of US
It was all a dream, until we made it a reality: Introducing, The Flag of US Three years after Colin Kaepernick first took a knee there was a vision to…
A Letter to My Daughter: Dear Baby Girl, It’s Okay to Feel Scared Right Now
My 9-year-old daughter is questioning a lot of what is going on in our world right now. I explain to her the importance of Black Lives Matter and answer…
How the murder of George Floyd has given rebirth to our nation
“My daddy changed the world,” said little Gianna Floyd, the adorable six-year-old daughter of George Floyd, father, brother, son, friend and child of God, who was viciously and slowly murdered…
The Lynching Era Still Isn’t Over
Black Americans have been fighting lynching for over a century. In 1917, ten thousand African Americans organized by the NAACP marched in the Negro Silent Protest Parade to protest lynchings…
Afro-Dominicans Dismantling Anti-Blackness
(Photo credit: Andreya Tho) Like so many of you, I’m doing my best to process the tragic loss of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and the many more Black…
End the militarization of police and use of force against people, just like Barr wrongly did
There is an urgent threat to civil rights in our country, and the head of the United States Department of Justice, William Barr, is immorally at the center. In the…