race

I’m a mixed-race, black and white Californian, and this was my first time in the South.

I was probably the most religious kid you ever met. I genuinely believed in God, the way that most kids believe in Sunday morning cartoons and rainbow colored fruit rollups.

What I can do is try to reach other white women who have yet to consider how their whiteness has led to significant inequities in our society.

Letting my hair go natural lifted a huge burden! I don’t feel like a slave to it anymore, which has made me feel less annoyed by it.

I need for people in my life who have or are willing to do the hard work to not to just have me in their life as their token black best friend.

Lloyd abused his power when he interjected himself into the lives of these teens to further his own agenda and terrorize vulnerable, young brown girls.

I knew there was still a culture of fear surrounding black people, but this was the first time I had experienced a person scared of black people.

If gentrification bothers you, the first thing you have to ask yourself is “Am I part of the problem?” The world is better when it’s more diverse