Category: Drugs

• The Police State and the Black Community: Redux

  

  Why We Say Fuck Da Police “Get your fucking hands up now!” They surrounded the car, pointing their automatic assault rifles at the four of us sitting in a 1989 Mercedes-Benz. “Get outta da fuckin’ out the car!” “Where are the drugs?” The men thoroughly destroyed the inside interior of the vehicle. This was Memorial…

  March 12, 2016

  Activism, Culture, Drug War, Drugs, Education, equality, Equity, Hate Crime, History, Human Rights, LGBTQ, Newspaper, Non-Profit, Police, Politics, Poverty, Prison, race, Religion, Social Justice, Social Media, Technology, Television, Veteran, War, Youth

• Finding Peace in the City of Wind

  

  “Peace is a lot like love. In order to have love, an individual must open themselves up to possible rejection and pain caused by another. Just like a community might risk war by opening themselves up to another community. To have peace or love, there is always some type of vulnerability that must be shown.…

  March 5, 2016

  Activism, Culture, Dating, Drugs, Economics, Education, Environment, equality, Equity, Feminism, Gender, LGBTQ, Love, Manhood, Marriage, Media, mental health, Non-Profit, Police, Politics, Poverty, Prison, race, Religion, Sexism, Social Justice, Veteran, Writer, Youth

• Depression, Struggle, and My Road to Self-Worth

  

  The Big 3-0 Turning thirty years old personally for me was a significant milestone and a year of significant transition. During my time growing up on Chicago’s South and West sides, I was placed in various foster homes starting at the tender age of three-years-old. Fortunately, I was adopted at the age of twelve. When…

  February 21, 2016

  Activism, Culture, Dating, Drugs, Economics, Education, Environment, Gender, Health, Manhood, mental health, Newspaper, Non-Profit, Poverty, race, Social Media, Veteran, violence, War, Writer