Daniel Holtzclaw was an Oklahoma police officer who has been accused and arrested for raping and sexually assaulting 13 black women. He is currently on trial, but there’s one major problem. It’s a jury of his peers: eight white men…
I guess after being told how sorry you are over and over again by multiple sources, you start to think something is seriously wrong with you. That’s natural and to be expected. However, in these United States of America, a…
On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed by white supremacist terrorists. Four black girls, Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robinson and Carol Denise McNair were killed that day more than 50 years…
On the morning of August 26, reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward were shot and killed on live television by Vester Lee Flanagan, who later shot and killed himself after the shootings. Flanagan, a gay black male, was a…
Dear William H. Cosby, I’m writing this letter in order to get some things off my chest. I know this will likely never reach you, but this is just my way of venting. First off, I wanted to say that…
Nine lives were taken in a church a few days ago in Charleston by a wanna-be white supremacist. The victims were black. The massacre occurred at the Emanuel AME Church one evening during a Bible meeting. The assassin Dylann Roof…
All eyes of the world are focused on Charleston, South Carolina, as yet another mass murder has taken place. This time it took place at a setting most people least expected, at a church. The most troubling part is that…
School’s out. Summer’s practically here. And it’s time for kids all over the nation to cut loose and enjoy their vacation with water fights and cookout parties. Unfortunately, not all young people can party when and wherever they want without…
Is it wrong for people to be who they aren’t? Is it wrong to portray yourself as someone other than yourself? Hundreds of after-school specials and family movies say yes. The lesson you’re supposed to learn is to be who…
“How does it feel to be a problem?” This is a question asked in W.E.B. Dubois’ treatise The Souls of Black Folk. The question doesn’t ask how does it feel to have problems or have the kinds of problems that…