America Moved Right. What Should the Left Do?

On the heels of Donald Trump winning the 2024 Election, I made a video sharing my thoughts, many of which made many different kinds of people angry.

Dec 8, 2024 • 

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October 2024

The Absurd Cost of Ego Driven Policing

https://wondery.com/shows/empire-city/

Oct 17, 2024 • 

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Is Obama Helping Democrats Scapegoat Black Men?

Oct 14, 2024 • 

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"The Monster"

The Root of Xenophobia & Anti-Blackness

Oct 7, 2024 • 

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"The Monster"

The Root of Xenophobia & Anti-Blackness

Oct 7, 2024 • 

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September 2023

15 Years a Black Immigrant

I can still hear my grandmother’s feet coming around the corner to my room and feel the wrinkled confusion on my fifteen-year-old face as I opened my…

Sep 1, 2023 • 

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June 2023

Stop Romanticizing the George Floyd Protests

A question I’m asked religiously is what happened?

Jun 2, 2023 • 

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April 2023

The Law Won't Save Us

If you’re Black in America, you’re aware that the law doesn’t operate for us the way it does for our white counterparts.

Apr 24, 2023 • 

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March 2023

What Does It Mean To Be Magic?

“What are the words you do not yet have?

Mar 8, 2023 • 

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January 2023

Protecting Black Women is Abolitionist

I ended the essay Abolition, Tory Lanez & Meg thee Stallion:

Jan 18, 2023 • 

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December 2022

Abolition, Tory Lanez & Meg thee Stallion

I am a Black woman, a defense attorney, and an abolitionist.

Dec 30, 2022 • 

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America's Politic of Distraction

America practices a politic of distraction by condemning parts so that it can preserve the whole.

Dec 1, 2022 • 

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