As a frequent traveler and black American who’s painfully aware of the many police-involved deaths of black drivers, I now have “The Talk” with my white and non-black minority friends before getting into their cars.
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Milwaukee Officials: Black Youth, Single Mothers Are Not Responsible for Systemic Failings—You Are
Milwaukee has multiple problems: poverty, a school system that throws out Black children at high rates. But there’s another challenge.
Have a Problem With Black-Only Spaces? Get Over It
To be clear, Black-only space is itself acceptable, and there’s a difference between Black people choosing to come together and white people systematically excluding others from their institutions and definitions of humanity.
Jasmine Abdullah’s Leadership Should be Uplifted and Celebrated, Not Criminalized
A law originally created to protect Black people from vigilantes is now being used to criminalize and intimidate activists, by locking up a freedom fighter who made it her life’s work to oppose police violence and killings of Black people.
Pregnant and Punished: How Our Drug Policies Hurt Women
The sad truth is that pregnant women with drug problems are overwhelmingly likely to be criminalized rather than getting the help they need.
Weed for Period Pain? Yes, But I Want Equity in the Marijuana Industry Too
Last month, “Vanity Fair” announced that Whoopi Goldberg is co-launching a line of cannabis (marijuana) products in April that will provide holistic alternatives for menstrual cramps. Yes, you read that correctly.
‘I’m Not Slow’: Black Girls Tell Their Experiences of School ‘Pushout’ in New Book
For Black girls, the very schools charged with educating them reinforce and reproduce a dangerous, though often invisible, form of racial and gendered inequality.
Anti-Transgender Policies Go Beyond Bathroom Bills
I am very familiar with this fear.
Schools Spend More Money Policing Students Than Helping Them
We all want safe schools. But we won’t get them with guns, handcuffs, or increased use of detentions and suspensions.
I’m a black woman; that doesn’t mean I have a bomb in my hair
My hair is a critical part of my self-expression, my artistic practice, a celebration of my heritage and my connection to spirit. So when TSA runs their dirty-ass latex gloves through my hair, it’s an insult. It’s racist. And it needs to stop.