Editorials
Personal written articles, primarily focused on social justice and race relations
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I Fasted For Ramadan as a Non-Muslim
Eid Mubarak! 🫶🏾 I have a bit of a story to tell. So I work with this 10 y/o boy named Mohammad. He’s a devout Muslim who takes the most adorable pride in his faith. As someone that never grew…
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So Me, my Trust Issues, & Cleo Sol walk into a bar…
What percent of yourself do you give to people? My mom presented this concept to me years ago, and we’d have long discussions about it. It’s this idea that for everyone in your life, you implicitly give them only so…
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Why Do I Hold My Tongue Hostage?
I’m still finding it very difficult to express myself lately, so I brought it back to my basics & tried funneling my thoughts out through writing. This is the results of my attempt at transparency.
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“I’m just… Angry.” – Venting My Black Frustrations
I feel like Black America hasn’t been able to catch a break this week, and I genuinely feel so much anger and frustration that writing is the only healthy place for me to put all of this emotion. This piece…
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Abolish The Death Penalty: The Role That Race Plays in its Application
Brandon Bernard’s execution is not one of a martyr, but an unfortunate effect of the racial disparities backed into the core of capital punishment and the justice system as a whole
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You Don’t Get Applause for Doing The Bare Minimum
Princeton University announced today that they will be removing the name of former President Woodrow Wilson from it’s public policy school and residential college, citing his racist policies and ideologies, which included his time as the school’s president. At first…
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How Do You Expect Us To Move On?
Na’kia Crawford was a black 18-year-old, new high school graduate, simply running some errands with her grandmother on June 14th in Akron, Ohio, when someone pulled up on the drivers side of the car they were in and shot her…
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This is Much Deeper Than the Death of George Floyd
There’s an old saying from a Roman poet (Juvenal – 1st century) that goes: “Give them Bread & Circuses and they will never revolt.” It’s this idea that as long as you give people a means to survive (bread) and…
