Category: Color of Law

In a country that has failed to account for its legacy of slavery, Jim Crow and institutional racism - or the role of Black folks in building this nation through blood, sweat and tears - white supremacy lives in America, and with no signs of abatement.

We discussed the need to not comply or obey in advance, to learn history and challenge efforts to erase it, the need for solidarity and organizing, creativity, and the need for truth tellers, writers and thinkers who are tied to the community.

His ritual burning and burying of the confederate flag every Memorial Day was an example of the artist engaged in protest. But he did not leave it there.

Black people wind up dead in the presence of law enforcement because their lives are discounted.

he was a true leader and hero for Black people who risked his life for racial justice.

When we think of those people who are deported from the U.S., we often have images of undocumented Latinx folks from Mexico and Central America. In reality, many Black people are among those who are deported, and some of them have served in the U.S. military.

Those who would consider the depiction of George Floyd as the son of God as blasphemous must ask themselves whether George Floyd as Jesus is more offensive to them than any brother as Jesus.

Since the GOP’s Southern Strategy of the 1960s, the Republican Party has capitalized on white resentment of civil rights for Black people by equating government with Black people, and promoting opposition to government programs because Black people might benefit.

At a time when Black America faced a reign of terror and racial violence from the white mob, this dynamic Black woman used journalism as a weapon to wage a one-woman campaign against lynching.

Black America will understand what we did tonight.”