Category: Advocates/Activists

The Neuroscience of Political Tribalism | Why You Can’t Think Straight
You saw it too. I was watching clips from Jesse Jackson's homegoing [...]

Dr. Angella Dorothea Ferguson: The Woman Who Refused to Let Sickle Cell Patients Be Forgotten
Calling Things by Their Proper Name: Honoring Dr. Angella Dorothea Fer [...]

Mother of Environmental Justice: Hazel M. Johnson
updated from November 9 2024
Never forgetting the pioneerin [...]

Sister Souljah — The 1992 Moment That Shifted Political Language
Forget the people telling you: "There was racial harmony before we had [...]

When Disability and Blackness Meet: Over 25 Times When Grace Was Denied To Disabled Black People
There is a quiet cruelty that rarely gets named plainly. It lives in t [...]

When Facts are Suppressed, Distorted, or Dismissed, Injustice Multiplies.
The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.-Ida B [...]

Stay Woke: When a Warning is Turned to a Punchline
Watching language warning about life or death flatten into [...]

19 James Baldwin Truths and Affirmations That Still Strengthen the Human Spirit (on audio)
Latest episode of WESurviveAbusePodcast.com
19 James Baldwin Trut [...]

Black American History Lesson: What Happened to the First Private Black School for Girls in Connecticut?
I hope that these last few weeks have taught us to take history as a t [...]

Valerie Castile Says the State’s New School-Meals Law Is An Investment in Minnesota’s kids—and a Tribute to Her Son, Philando
We were previously warned. Rather than shutting down Black people when [...]