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Last night, my little sisters walked home from the store and saw a man shouting from his car. A baby younger, probably younger than 2 was in the middle of

hi, i've wanted to share my book cover for a while. here it is. especially now, i believe that more people will realize that we deserve a world without police.

i cannot emphasize enough that convictions are not justice for George Floyd. We will never know because justice requires the participation of the people impacted by it. The dead cannot

remember when the Bucks went on a strike to protest police violence and other teams followed? Remember when Obama called LeBron and Chris Paul and told them to stop striking?

i believe Biden & Trump's presidency will not make a difference for lots of people. America is an imperial disaster.But I do believe in fighting for the people in it,

reading now and wow, harriet tubman died five years before my great-grandmother was born. my great grandmother lived until I was 21. that's how close we are to slavery resistance

Sometimes, i think the left loses people by telling them that they shouldn’t be surprised when they find out something horrific has happened. I think it’s okay to be surprised

hi, I wrote about why progressive Black women and women of color might feel torn about Kamala Harris. Truth is, we are tired. We are gonna have to play defense