As the tears ran down my face my heart sunk to my stomach. No, they were not so much tears of fear, but more of disgust, concern, and frustration! What the world saw taking place on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, many are calling insurrection, revolt, riot, and uprising chaos. For me, it\’s all of these […]
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When discussing race relations with peers and acquaintances, I sometimes raise the question of whether there is hope for anything resembling a “post-racial” future in the United States or, more appropriately, if racism and the afterlife of American slavery will ever cease to be so influential to the contemporary state of affairs. Admittedly, I have
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Lizzo, another Black woman who can’t seem to catch a break from the media. The “Juice,” singer has shared on social media via Tik Tok that she was on a 10-day smoothie cleanse. The chaotic reaction caused many people, especially white women, to feel as if she fell into diet culture. Body Positivity Lizzo has
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In a recent interview that you could originally only watch on Snapchat, of all places, Former President Barack Obama doubled down on earlier comments he made that expressed his disdain for the phrase “defund the police.” In his words, “you lost a big audience the minute you say it, which makes it a lot less
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This just in: It is now hip to be antiracist. Months of international civil rights protests and several high-profile cases of police brutality and racial violence have left hordes of non-Black Americans scrambling to get onto the “right side of history.” To be sure, there are many such “allies” with noble intentions, but there are
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With the presidential election just days away there is plenty of churn happening on both sides of the spectrum. Everyone is rallying to their perspective corners and trying to find any piece of solace that assures them their candidate is going to win. Some have viewed the past three plus years as an anomaly. Others
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In the United States, as in many other countries, it is a customary practice for elected officials and other authority figures to lie. Two very relevant peddlers of lies in the country are politicians at all levels and the police. Politicians lie and tell half-truths with such frequency that many of us simply expect them
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Following the President’s defense of Confederate flags and military bases named for Confederate generals, his open criticism of organizations supporting the banning of the flag, and his latest jingoistic venture, claims of “left-wing indoctrination” in schools that teach the history of slavery and systemic racism, preferring instead his newly formulated initiative for “patriotic education” and
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Fearing that her dishonesty would soon come to light, a white history professor at George Washington University, Jessica A. Krug, recently revealed that she had pretended to be Black for nearly all of her adult life. The story drew several comparisons to the case of former NAACP chapter president Rachel Dolezal, and, strangely, another GWU
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On February 26, 2012, Travon Martin was stalked and shot to death for just going to the store. Three years later, the world grieved with shock on June 18, 2015, as 9 members of The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church were gunned down during an evening prayer service. May 5, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery was pursued
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