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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 •

June 2023

Stop Romanticizing the George Floyd Protests

A question I’m asked religiously is what happened? So many people are convinced that in 2020, we were united in a demand for change and because they…

Jun 2 •

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. Our lived experiences have…

Apr 24 •

March 2023

What Does It Mean To Be Magic?

“What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you…

Mar 8 •

January 2023

Protecting Black Women is Abolitionist

I ended the essay Abolition, Tory Lanez & Meg thee Stallion: Whenever a Black woman is the victim of abuse at the hands of a man, no matter what the…

Jan 18 •

December 2022

Abolition, Tory Lanez & Meg thee Stallion

I am a Black woman, a defense attorney, and an abolitionist. Those things don’t conflict, but during the trial against Tory Lanez, as someone who was…

Dec 30, 2022 •

America's Politic of Distraction

America practices a politic of distraction by condemning parts so that it can preserve the whole. Political fetch if you will. Focus your ire on police…

Dec 1, 2022 •

October 2022

White Supremacy Doesn't Need Our Help

There is nothing new, revolutionary, legitimate, or nuanced about racism, white supremacy, white nationalism, and everything in between. The same is…

Oct 21, 2022 •

September 2022

Underfunding Public Defense Fuels Mass Incarceration

A society doesn’t end up with a massive prison industrial complex if that society isn’t on some level, invested in the punitive beliefs that uphold it…

Sep 28, 2022 •

August 2022

What's in a Movement? Understanding Resistance, Justice & Allies

If you are fighting against systemic racism in white America, you must always remember that “there are no new pains.” Otherwise, you’ll be discouraged…

Aug 31, 2022 •

July 2022

Being Black & Principled in white America

Every Black person navigating white America knows there’s always the opportunity to betray the Black community and your own principles in exchange for…

Jul 27, 2022 •

June 2022

How Do We Create Change? A Lesson in Shifting Social Consciousness

If you’re in the business of trying (or just hoping) to change the world around you, you undoubtedly find yourself wondering how. How do we create…

Jun 21, 2022 •

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