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New York, Eric Adams is Lying to You
The New York City Council recently passed two bills that would address crises happening in this city: deaths at Rikers and police abuse—both of which…
Jan 30
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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? So many people are convinced that in 2020, we were united in a demand for change and because they…
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. Our lived experiences have…
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? 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, 2023
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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, 2023
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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
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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. Political fetch if you will. Focus your ire on police…
Dec 1, 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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