injustice
Atatiana Jefferson isn’t just another “incident.” Atatiana isn’t just another “accident.” Atatiana isn’t just another “story” in a never-ending cycle of tragedies. Atatiana is a human being, first and foremost. Atatiana is a young black woman who had hopes, dreams, and accomplishments. Atatiana has family, friends, and loved ones. Atatiana had a past, but, unfortunately, […]
The Sanford police was thrust into the national and international headlines after their handling, or rather mishandling, of the Trayvon Martin case. Now, they’re back in the spotlight after a particularly heinous case that saw the senseless murder of a young mother, one of her sons and the serious wounding of her other young son, […]
“Be careful out there because if something happens to you, they’re not gonna look for you,” is something hard to fathom to say to a child, but the reality proves it to be quite valid. It just came to the public’s vision about the number of missing black girls in Washington, D.C. Sadly, this is […]
Yes, that’s right. Just because you’re black and Bill Cosby is black doesn’t mean you have to expound his so-called innocence at every turn. Of course, there have been too many black men to name who have fallen victim to an unfair and unjust legal system. However, that doesn’t mean that you should ignore the […]
Using their bodies and voices for instruments of change, black women from several organizations chained themselves together and blocked streets in Chicago that disrupted NFL draft activities. Taking style cues from Beyoncé’s “Formation” video, the ladies were decked out in black berets and black jackets to protest yet another officer-involved shooting and cuts to Chicago’s […]
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