How Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Proves Racism is A War All Its Own On the heels of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and worldwide calls for aid for its citizens come emerging accounts of discrimination, racism, and prejudice faced by people of color, particularly residents of African descent. Currently, thousands…

And What No One Wants To Hear After It Happens I didn’t recognize this particular alarm; it was much louder than the one that went off every time I tried to fry chicken. The clock read 8:32 PM. Startled by the sound, my 9-year-old son sat up curiously; the noise…

And Apparently, We’ve Perfected the Practice Disclaimer: This article explores the experience of internalized racial oppression, it is not a claim that white people can, in any way, be the victims of racism. There is no such thing as reverse racism. …

Is anyone else nervous about how this ends? There’s something particularly disturbing about the cavalier news coverage surrounding Kanye West; almost like we’re tuned into a train wreck from the safety of our cell phones. Let’s be honest, something is intriguing about tragedy, and I’m guilty of a subtle obsession…

Are single-mothers suffering from an invisible mental health crisis? Of all the controversy surrounding the biological drama, King Richard, the one thing that most stood out to me was the clear contrast between the life depicted by the children he physically parented and the ones he abandoned. Sabrina Williams, the…

And Why Men Don’t Mind In 1996, the world met a 34-year-old Seattle teacher and married mother of four, Mary Kay Letourneau. When her illicit affair with a then sixth-grade student, Vili Fualaau, leaked to the public, Letourneau quickly became a household name. A King County police report recounted officers’…

Are Black women in partnership with men who delight in their oppression? It sure seems that way. According to Black Femicide-US, an organization that tracks homicide and violence towards Black women and girls in the United States, every 6 hours in this country, a black woman or girl is killed…

Where Rap Music Meets Rage On the evening of November 5th, estimates of over 50,000 people attended Astroworld Festival, a sold-out outdoor music event at NRG Park in Houston, TX. Footage posted earlier in the day when festival gates opened showed a stampede of concertgoers breaking down security checkpoints and gates, climbing over retaining fences…