In light of the student protests happening at universities across the country, I’m asking folks who are planning to support by showing up or leading their own protest to do so safely. Protect yourself...

Another Black American First

In November 2023 Democratic candidate, Henry Whitehorn, defeated his Republican opponent John Nickelson for the office of sheriff of north-western Louisiana’s Caddo pa...

Last week on the Drew Barrymore Show, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson showed up as Drew did an impression of him based on a 90s photo where he was wearing a black turtleneck, gold chain, jeans, and a fanny ...

As I write this on Super Tuesday, the single biggest day for presidential primaries in the US, it seems like things are going as expected. Fifteen states and one territory are voting for the Democrati...

Wisconsin has long been one of the most gerrymandered states in the United States. For more than a decade, Democrats had tried to overturn the Republican drawn maps, but a Republican dominated state l...

The United States Senate passed a bill on Tuesday that would permanently defund the primary humanitarian aid group for Palestinians in Gaza and beyond, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for P...

I’ve written several posts over the years about Black children and adults being discriminated against for wearing their hair natural, instead of relaxing it or cutting it close in a TWA (teeny weeny a...

An Historic Moment

The Virginia General Assembly is the oldest English-speaking legislative body in America. And for the first time in its 405-year history, the Virginia House of Delegates has electe...

Regardless of your politics, I would hope that we could all agree that genocide is bad. That relentlessly bombing civilians is wrong. That an occupying force destroying places they occupy is unjust. T...

I’ve been talking with people who feel disconnected from their bodies. Those of us watching the footage from Gaza, the Congo, Sudan, and other places where genocide is taking place must take care of o...

It depends. Maybe on a personal level, but I'm not feeling very trusting of institutions. It seems more lies are being exposed every day. I saw an article about a week ago that didn’t seem to get much...

Watermelon is popular on social media right now, being used as a symbol of resistance for Palestinians and being called out for being a symbol that stereotypes Black Americans as lazy, unclean, and st...