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Stop Putting Black Trauma on Display

February 15, 2023

By Brandon Sutton

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.

After Reading This You Won’t Feel Like Celebrating Columbus Day

October 7, 2022

By Darryl Lorenzo Wellington

It’s time to learn from our history and honor Indigenous People’s Day in every state.

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…

In memory of Toni Morrison

September 3, 2019

By Darryl Lorenzo Wellington

The first book that I read by Toni Morrison was her artfully bejeweled 1970 novel, The Bluest Eye. I was in the upper grades in high school, maybe 16 or…

“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…

White rage: What is it leading to and where will it end?

May 2, 2019

By Darryl Lorenzo Wellington

Ever since the 2016 presidential election, there have been countless articles, theories, and commentators dissecting it. A level of white dissatisfaction, and, yes, even white rage, played a role in…

The Attack on a Muslim Mosque Mirrors Other Hate Crimes

April 9, 2019

By Darryl Lorenzo Wellington

I’ve been pretty wrecked most of March as I read about the mass shooting in New Zealand.    The man arrested for carrying out the mosque attacks in what has…

Coming to Terms with Privilege in the Face of White Supremacy

August 17, 2018

By Elizabeth Poulos

In the wake of Unite the Right II, I have been surprised by the reactions of some media pundits who feign surprised reactions by white nationalists taking to the streets…

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