White people, this is for you. I grew up in a town where I was surrounded by 99 percent white people. Needless to say, there were lots of “Amy Coopers” in my town. This combined with being raised in a country that is inherently racist—where racism is reinforced in books, TV, and film—means I most […]
The necessity of the fight for Black people’s liberation is always real to me. The notion that Black suffering is anything but an emergency rings so dissonantly to me that my core completely rejects it. Slavery is cruel, slavery is evil, and that evil and cruelty are so vibrantly, wildly, and aggressively alive. Here is […]
We are witnessing and participating in one of the largest civil rights movements in United States history. We are feeling stressed. And on top of enduring this country’s re-re-re-re-re-reckoning with it’s treatment of Black people, there’s COVID-19, governmental politics, climate change, civil rights injustices in other parts of the world, late stage capitalism, and so […]
Afrofuturism is a creative movement centering futuristic and science fiction themes alongside Black history and culture. It appreciates our eclectic Black community. It also makes space for us weird ones in a nearby future, sharing a range of Blackness that is often overlooked. But Afrofuturism doesn’t always look like Nichelle Nichols in Star Trek…or LeVar […]
I spent a week in Harlem earlier this year. The hustle of the city nearly swallowed me whole, but in Harlem there were no overwhelming feelings of discontent. Why? because I know that without a doubt Harlem is a place where those who look like me will always belong. This inspired me to learn more […]
“African American testers posing as home buyers were often denied information about special incentives that would have made the purchase easier, and were required to produce loan preapproval letters and other documents when whites were not.” –“The ‘Heartbreaking’ Decrease in Black Home Ownership,” Washington Post, February 28, 2019 I saw The Last Black Man in […]
I don’t care if we’re friends, if you’re behavior is harmful to me, my family, my friends or Black and Brown folks—my community—then I will let you tf know. If you take it personally or immediately defend why you have the right to continue to say or do certain things, then you have a lot […]
All of the recent squabbling in the vegan community over the Impossible Burger has me upset. The definition of veganism is to exclude—as much as possible—the exploitation and cruelty of animals from our lifestyles. Ultimately, our goal is to change paradigms and shift public opinion, in order eliminate the use of animals in products, and make […]
Imagine there was a country that started a war with the United States, and it remained for the rest of its existence. Now imagine American fighting for that flag to be put on government buildings; proudly flying that nation’s flag and calling themselves patriots. Imagine the nerve it takes to criticize Colin Kaepernick as “unpatriotic” […]
Before I was born—when my sister was six—she would walk home and pick up my brother, who was two, and they would sit in an empty house and lock the doors and draw the curtains and wait for my parents to come home. Every day on my sister’s walk home, she would think about contingency plans. […]
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