Can I Speak Freely

Critical Race Theory Is Not Dividing Our Country, Conservatism Is

Our image of ourselves as defined for us by textbooks and teachers. We not only accepted ourselves as inferior; we accepted the inferiority as inevitable and inescapable.  – Huey P. Newton, Revolutionary Suicide  One of the largest weapons white supremacy used to oppress non-white communities for over four centuries is the public education system. Statistically, Black […]

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Simone Biles Controversy

The Tokyo Olympics is something that many people have been waiting for since its cancellation last year. The most famous Olympian there is Simone Biles. She won five Olympic medals at the Rio Olympics in 2016. Since she performed so well, the public had high expectations for this years Olympic games. All of this pressure

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Politics Are Not the Problem

Because of last year’s election results, it can be inferred that the majority of residents in 25 of 50 states believe that diversity trainings and the study of institutional racism constitute “Radical Left,” anti-American, spiteful propaganda that demonizes America and Americans as irredeemably racist. They’ve arrived at this conclusion because they and the conservative politicians

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Black Girl Magic!

A lot of young girls aspire to be ballerinas. I\’ve been a ballerina/dancer for 13 years and love everything about it. Ballerinas, in my opinion, do not get enough credit for what they accomplish since it is unquestionably difficult. Ballet was created as court entertainment during the Italian Renaissance. In the 15th and 16th centuries,

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The Conservative War Against History

What does it say about the state of American politics that over four months after the end of the previous presidential administration, which was panned internationally, brought for the first time ever to two separate impeachment trials, and overwhelmingly regarded as perhaps the most morally reprehensible, dishonest, illegitimate, and unintelligently managed four years in recent

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Black Joy!

I am not a regular on Facebook, but from time to time, I take a scroll to see what’s trending, what’s thought-provoking or what enlightening lessons I could learn. Low and behold I came across a post with an image of André 3000 and Big Boi of the hip hop duo Outkast, Not sure what the connection was between the post and

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