Category: Civil Rights & Social Justice

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 [...]

You Are Not Overreacting: The Truth About Racism and Dismissal (w/Affirmations)
“Being asked to ignore degradation is not an invitation to be strong. [...]

The Insidious Nature of Racial Stress
Many Black people have endured generations of:
“It’s not that bad.”“Y [...]

Not Like Us: The Black Freedom Legacy Was Not Built on Unquestioning Institutional Compliance
There is a pattern that deserves daylight. Some movements wrap them [...]

Not ‘Just Like Us’: Truth Is the Line Between Legacy and Imitation
Many movements draw inspiration from the Black American freedom strugg [...]

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

Stop Calling It “Race Baiting”: Black Maternal Death Is a Life-or-Death Reality (podcast episode)
Black women speaking about maternal death are not “race baitin [...]

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

For Some People, Staying Grounded in Reality Is a Daily Act of Strength
For Some People, Staying Grounded in Reality Is a Daily Act of Strengt [...]

When “Nothing Will Happen” Isn’t a Safety Plan: Asking About Real Safeguards
“If your confidence turns out to be misplaced, what protections exist [...]