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Category: Black Lives Matter

“They’re killing me. I can’t breathe.”

May 27, 2020

By Sharisse Tracey

In Trump’s great America, white pandemic protestors flood state capitols to be awed by the media and left alone by the police. At the same time African Americans are fighting…

Black Americans story with COVID-19 is no different

April 21, 2020

By Community Change Action

By Ponsella Hardaway, Executive Director for MOSES Action, and Dr. Seft Hunter, Director of Black Led Organizing for Community Change Action Black Americans have historically been disproportionately impacted by chronic…

But fandom aside, I am a black mother first, last and always and this is racial injustice at its best.

October 4, 2019

By Sharisse Tracey

Before I get into this two minute jail sentence for actress Felicity Huffman’s role in the college admissions scandal, let me start by saying that I am a mom. I…

Another unarmed Black man dies in custody of the Las Vegas police

September 18, 2019

By Nissa Tzun

Byron Williams death leaves another Las Vegas family seeking answers in an in-custody death case with literal dark spots in the story

There are no degrees of blackness

September 15, 2019

By Michael Jackson

“Brother brother, sister sister If you’re miss or if you’re mister Listen please to this fact Black is black is black is black”  Lyrics from Black is Black by Jungle…

A NIGHTMARE OF RACIAL ANIMOSITY OVERTAKING AMERICA

September 6, 2019

By Darryl Lorenzo Wellington

A bad dream is a bad experience. But a truly terrible experience occurs when a bad dream feels like a premonition. Judging by media stories, online commentary and conversations with…

“When They See Us” Through the Eyes of a 13-year-old Girl

August 6, 2019

By Sharisse Tracey

“I don’t want to watch this, Mommy, it is making me mad and I already know how it will end,” said my recently turned 13 year-old daughter with folded arms….

It’s time to talk about reparations

May 8, 2019

By Darryl Lorenzo Wellington

The idea of reparations are back in the news with the 2020 Democratic candidates, raising the issue of offering some form of payment to black Americans for the horrors inflicted…

The Assassination of Martin Luther King, and America’s Addiction to Gun Violence

April 5, 2019

By Darryl Lorenzo Wellington

April 4. The date of MLK’s assassination returns – as it always does to haunt us. April 4th, 1968 remains a guilty shadow lingering over American history. King is honored…

Underserved communities find no relief as water rates increase

November 1, 2018

By Jiquanda Johnson

Tia Simpson stood in front of nearly 40 journalists pleading her case for clean and affordable water. The 34-year-old Flint resident endured the aftermath of being exposed to the city’s…

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