Category: Civil Rights & Social Justice

Juneteenth: Proof That Even Our Freedom Is Seen as “Too Much”
Juneteenth is not just a holiday. It is a mirror [...]

Juneteenth Reminds Us: Delayed Truth Still Matters (audio)
Freedom has always had an important relationship with truth.
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10 Reasons to Be Outraged about Harvey Marcelin: How the System Protected a Killer Instead of Women
When a man kills three women over his lifetime, the system did [...]

Lucy Diggs Slowe: She Protected Us in Silence So We Could One Day Speak
“Because boundaried spaces don’t build themselves—someone has [...]

Using Michelle Obama’s Image to Justify White Supremacy Is a Self-Own—And a Betrayal
If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll [...]

Why Moral Clarity Still Matters: Remembering the Victims of Jeffrey Dahmer
Connecting with political allies is harder than people a [...]

The Murder of Sakia Gunn: Why the World Looked Away, and Why Her Community Refused to Forget
It was just past midnight on a Sunday in May 2003 when fifteen [...]

Grief That Echoes: Honoring the Women Amiri Baraka Lost to Violence
There are wounds that don’t stop bleeding just because the [...]

The Subtle Signs a Man Likes Women’s Labor More Than Women Themselves
He only likes women in roles that benefit him.Mother. Lo [...]

We Are Not Trespassing: Black Disability and the Right to Simply Live
We Are Not Trespassing. We Are Living.
There is a kind of [...]