May 25Kids Still Die: “Living” the Consequence of European ConquestWe are still living out the consequence of European conquest and colonization of the Indigenous peoples and lands of this continent. The very law they raise up to defend their right to bear arms was a law born out of their will to protect what they stole and to defend…Gun Violence2 min read
May 19Too Black Too StrongYou were Our Blackness Reinvented By the necessary of our condition A pride chiseled in your flesh Defiant as a mountain and as abrasive You put the diss in dissonance A sonic boom clash of dissent Bombarding our senses with an incessant chant of right and exact A pariah to…Malcolm X3 min read
Published in LEVEL·Dec 16, 2021bell hooks saved mebell hooks saved me. I say that in all sincerity. At a critical time in my life, when I was at my lowest point, it was bell hooks, through her books, who pulled me out of a hole of profound depression and set me on a path of self-renewal on…Feminism6 min read
Aug 4, 2021Gov. Cuomo, Culture is No Excuse for Sexual HarassmentEarlier this week, New York Attorney General Letitia James released a damning report in which 11 women accuse New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment. In his videotaped defense, Cuomo suggested that his behavior was “cultural” and not gender-specific. He displayed photos of himself kissing the cheeks of other…Andrew Cuomo3 min read
Jun 19, 2021Juneteenth as a Federal Holiday is an Act of Fraud by a Congress that Continues to Sabotage Black FreedomEarlier this week the Congress passed legislation making Juneteenth a federal holiday, and, somehow we are supposed to see this as an act of progress and cause for celebration. …Juneteenth8 min read
Published in An Injustice!·Jun 10, 2021The 10 Indicators that Black Lives Matter at Your JobA year ago the whole world witnessed one of the most glaring and repulsive acts of police violence captured on video when Derek Chauvin, with the active support and cooperation of his fellow officers, put the full weight of his body on the neck of George Floyd as he lay…Black Lives Matter6 min read
Apr 28, 2021Biden Owes Black People a Police Reform Executive Order as Act of RedemptionWithin minutes of the judge reading the guilty verdicts in the case of ex-police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, MN, President Biden took to the airwaves to offer his response to this case. In his remarks, he indicated his ongoing support for the passage…Joe Biden11 min read
Nov 27, 2020Socialists Don’t Kill Us; Cops Do: Open Letter to Rep. Jim ClyburnAs someone who has recognized the crucial role you played during the primary to secure Trump’s defeat in the election, I write to you from a place of deep concern in light of your recent comments following your party’s presidential win. In an interview with Yahoo Finance, in response to…Jim Clyburn9 min read
Nov 7, 2020The Ballot was a Bullet: Black Power at the PollsIt was the French philosopher Michel Foucault who is known to have said, “Politics is war by other means.” For African Americans, we have been engaged in a one-sided war since Trump took office. A war that culminated in one of the bloodiest summers Black people have experienced since the…2020 Presidential Race10 min read
Aug 28, 2020No Sanctuary for Black Women: Megan Thee Stallion, Breonna Taylor and State-Sanctioned MisogynoirMegan Thee Stallion was shot. And for a month she kept silent about the identity of the shooter as the internet denied her, mocked her and cracked jokes. People crawled out from under all manner of rocks to throw the kind of shade on Ms. …Misogynoir9 min read
