The system works how it was designed. Kyle Rittenhouse is acquitted. Biden says, “The jury system works, and we have to abide by it.” It […]
Juneteenth 2021
It’s Juneteenth today and for the first time, it is recognized as a federal holiday. Next year, it will be a holiday at my work […]
Hood Feminism
A book recommendation: Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall. I finished listening to the audiobook this morning and […]
Bystander Intervention Training
I attended a Bystander Intervention Training this evening put on by Asian Americans Advancing Justice | Chicago. With the increased harassment and violence against the […]
Ted Talk for Black History Month
For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. Nelson […]
Reeling
I’m still reeling team. I watched Stephen Colbert’s live address from last night, it helped. As in — I am scared and incensed and shocked […]
Definitions
Accountability. An obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one’s actions. Lack: deficiency or absence of something needed, desirable, or customary: something […]
So don’t stop.
Breonna Taylor was shot in her bed at 26 years old and the police officers who murdered her have yet to be held accountable. Are […]
Happy Fourth.
With Juneteenth only a couple of weeks behind us — and still largely unrecognized in this country — the Fourth of July has a sober […]
The New Jim Crow
I finished listening to The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander today. The sixteen-hour audiobook took me a […]