The families of victims are often overlooked when examining the financial, emotional and psychological damage of pervasive incarceration […]
Category Archive: Addressing Racial Conflict
My heart goes out the family of this young girl. Sadly, this story is one of the countless […]
Time and again we see how deftly a Black man’s innocence can be distorted into one that paints him as the perpetual flawed character prone to criminality – one deserving of the brutality committed against him
Ms. Sihle Bolani, author of ‘We Are The Ones We Need: The War on Black Professionals in Corporate […]
Desmond Tutu said, “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the […]
When confronted with racism, many Blacks choose to look the other way and keep silent to protect their little piece of the pie – no matter how meager. They fail to realize that their silence weakens Black progress. And makes them an active participant in their own oppression. Their silence perpetuates and help to preserve white hierarchy.
In a discussion in which I argued that racial discrimination is preserved and perpetuated in the cultivation of […]
I have never ‘truly’ felt the kind of terror that lived in my belly and would not go […]
“Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair?
Who taught you to hate the color of skin,
to such extent that you bleach your skin to get like white man?”
“Who taught you to hate yourself
from the top of your head to the soles of your feet?
Who taught you to hate your own kind?” Malcolm X
“…The more we know about each other, the closer we are to learn something about ourselves.” -Maya Angelou-
