Civil Rights & Social Justice

“You looked fine.” “I saw you on television.” But what if that wasn’t me?What if I wasn’t on television? Maybe it was Will Smith. Or Oprah. Or Bill Cosby.Famous. Smiling. …

(No matter how many awards, episodes, or characters say otherwise) 🎭 Television Is Entertainment—Not Protection TV is not systemic change. TV is not a shield from injustice. TV is not …

Too many are hiding behind titles and faceless entities — the council, the board, the institute, the trust — when they make decisions that do not protect women and children.When …

Nurse Jennifer Melle was doing what few people would want to do: providing care — intimate, necessary, and skillful care — to a male prisoner convicted of child sexual abuse. …

Black women don’t need a textbook to recognize fascism on this planet.We’ve felt it creeping under the door, showing up in church bulletins, classrooms, courtrooms, and dinner tables.We’ve survived it …

The crisis of child predators isn’t going anywhere. Unless the adults change our harmful ways and change them right away. Because the pressure has always been placed especially on female …

🕯 The Parable of the Crooked Weaver Once, in a small village wrapped in forest and silence, there lived a skilled weaver named Marron. He was known far and wide …

The truth is not quiet. The truth is not polite. The truth is not neutral. And neither are predators. Too many of us watched it happen in real time.People made …

Some people may see this clip of K. Michelle as just a moment. But we see history. Few dare to understand what it is like to come from a people—Black …

That’s not deep thinking. That’s dressed-up racism. Let’s get right to it. There’s a question floating around that sounds intellectual, but it’s rooted in fear, ignorance, and historical amnesia: “Can …