In June, Rachel Dolezal, an activist and former president of the NAACP chapter in Spokane, was outed by her parents as being a white woman. She later left the organization. And just yesterday, Shaun King, an activist affiliated with the Black [...]
Race, Love, Hate, and Me: A Distinctly American Story
Shaun King2016-11-29T17:39:11-05:00Over the past 72 hours I have been attacked with lies by the conservative media, lies that have been picked up by the traditional media and spread further. I have kept silent at the advice of friends and mentors, but I will do so no longer. [...]
Marrow Weary—How Deeply Rooted Racism is in the Fight For Equal Education
Adourthus Mc Dowell2016-11-29T17:39:11-05:00A one minute review of the recent events unfolding, as it seems that’s all the time we have left. As of August 30t, 2015, I will no longer be a Local School Council Facilitator, as my medium, and long term goals conflict with this [...]
I am Darren Wilson
John C. Dorhauer2016-11-29T17:39:11-05:00I am Darren Wilson. Which is to say I am guilty in the slaying of Michael Brown. Think of me as the guy who drives the getaway car - who provides the means of escape. Or think of me as the guy who, with malice [...]
A Light-Skinned Latina Like Me Will Never Be Able to Live in The Land Of Whiteness
Melissa Lozada-Oliva2016-11-29T17:39:11-05:00I’ve been told that I’m the ‘good’ kind of Latino because of my skin color What exactly does being a light-skinned Latina mean for me? It means that all at once, I am just dark enough, too dark or not dark enough at all. It [...]
“I’m Now As Poor as I was Before” — Prison-Created Poverty
Amme Voz2016-11-29T17:39:11-05:00No one likes to talk about the fact that “doing time” leaves the majority of returning citizens worse off than before they were incarcerated. Prior to my imprisonment, I had a very successful consulting business and I lived a solidly middle-class life. I worked hard, I [...]
I Looked at a Rapist In The Mirror and Saw Him Smiling Back
Hari Ziyad2016-11-29T17:39:12-05:00*This piece has been published with permission of the referenced ex-partner. Other relationships may have been slightly altered to protect specific identities.* The first time I was sexually assaulted I must have been 9 or 10 years old. I was violated by two family [...]
On Bill Cosby, Victim Blaming, and What it Means to be a Rape Survivor
Kioshana LaCount2016-11-29T17:39:12-05:00Fourteen years ago, I was raped. It was late fall 2001. I was in the first semester of my 9th grade year in high school. I was14 years old. My parents had just gotten divorced, and I’d recently transferred to a new school district for a [...]
I, Racist
John Metta2016-11-29T17:39:12-05:00What follows is the text of a “sermon” that I gave as a “congregational reflection” to an all White audience at the Bethel Congregational United Church of Christ on Sunday, June 28th. The sermon was begun with a reading of The Good Samaritan story, and [...]