I sat and I listened, all day long with great interest, and empathy, for what was said. But I too would point out, that when we begin to talk about 'Grace' we really need to evaluate what that really means. Grace is not something that [...]
History is the polemics of the victor, William F. Buckley allegedly said. Not so in the United States, at least not regarding the Civil War. As soon as Confederates laid down their arms, some picked up their pens and began to distort [...]
Yesterday the Washington State Supreme Court threw out an obstruction conviction against a juvenile who had insulted police and refused to go away when they were detaining his younger sister. The juvenile, with the initials E.J.J., directed the word “motherfucker” at Seattle police officers, according [...]
“These white folks, they think the world belongs to them,” Grandma told me 12 hours after Susie Jackson, Ethel Lance, Clementa Pinckney, Tywanza Sanders, Cynthia Hurd, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, Depyane Middleton Doctor, Daniel Simmons and Myra Thompson were murdered in a black Charleston church by a cowardly [...]
White people, where you at? I’m not kidding, white people. We have work to do. People of Color have been telling us what the problem is for decades. Their voices are not new, but it seems we are finally hearing them talk. So we have two [...]
By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at The Frisky. June 18, 2015 | Photographic Credit; Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama and the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Charleston, South Carolina, now forever forged together throughout time. A White man named Dylann Storm Roof walked [...]
By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at Clutch Magazine. | Photographic Credit; Worshippers embrace following a group prayer across the street from the scene of a shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Wednesday night. (Photograph By David Goldman/AP) For the Black community, yesterday was [...]
I remember Justine Black from elementary school. She was smart. She was brown, but not brown like me. I was black like most of the other kids in our class. I remember Justine because she was a good friend of mine. I knew that she was [...]
Kalief Browder was murdered, in the first degree. The papers will say that on Saturday, Browder, 22, walked into a room in his home, took the air conditioner out of a wall and hanged himself. But this was a premeditated murder of spirit, innocence, youth and [...]
