By Cera Byer | Originally Published at Salon. December 8, 2014 7:01 AM | This post originally appeared on Cera Byer's Facebook page. | Photographic Credit: Ollyy via Shutterstock) A plea to the good guys in my world to stop being so defensive and listen to other [...]
I am among the millions who have experienced the shock, grief, and fury of losing someone to racial violence. When I was 15, two close friends were killed in the Birmingham Sunday School bombing carried out by white supremacists trying to terrorize the rising civil [...]
"Hands Up, Don't Shoot" is not just about Mike Brown, or Ferguson, or police shooting unarmed black people. "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" is about a fundamental question that gets to the core of what this country stands for. It's a question that's been open to [...]
“Personal anecdotes don’t prove anything. The justice system isn’t racist. Black people are arrested more often because they commit more crime. Period. End of story.” So read the message in my inbox this morning, sent by someone who had happened across my essay about Ferguson, [...]
'"After their exhaustive review, the Grand Jury deliberated and made their final decision. they determined that no probable cause exists to file any charges against Officer Wilson and return a no true on each of the five indictments.'" I wasn’t surprised at all, but [...]
By Antonia Darder | Originally Published at TruthOut. November 30, 2014 | Photographic Credit; Shutterstock / Student erases Rather than an oppressive and manipulative engine for capitalist accumulation, schools should function as centers of creativity and imagination where an ethos of democratic life is grounded upon cultural [...]
By Betsy L. Angert | Originally Published at EmpathyEducates. November 28, 2014 It took seconds to end a child's life. The young boy's life could have been saved, maybe. We will never know because "civil servants," "peace officers," just waited. Cleveland officials said the police officers waited. [...]
“Watermelonism” White People I Know What You’ve Done My godmother invites me to her church in Manhattan Beach, California. The congregation is large, White, and affluent. We are the only two Black people there. There is lunch after service. Members of the congregation have [...]
"They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. ‘Peace, peace,’ they say, when there is no peace." ~ Jeremiah 6:14 (NIV) After learning that the Ferguson grand jury decided not to indict Officer Darren Wilson for the shooting [...]
