Making Trayvon Martinās murderer, George Zimmerman, a monster will not serve the greater good for black and brown people in America. George…
If you listened very carefully the night of the George Zimmerman verdict, you could hear the soft clink of the word “post”…
White people cheered the acquittal of George Zimmerman. Black people cheered the acquittal of O.J. Simpson. The case can be made that…
“To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.” – W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of…
To say that America is a sick puppy would be an understatement. To be more accurate, America is a grotesquely obese, cancerous,…
I love America, but she done me wrong.” These are the words of an acquaintance, someone who compared America to an unfaithful…
Racism as a persistent cancer of the American system, infecting the blood that runs through its democratic veins, is an idea that…
My husband is a Black man. He is one of the hardest working Americans I know, but he is wearing the face…
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