Category: Equity

• TransAmerica: The Case for Trans Rights

  

  The Friend and the Controversy In 2012, a good friend, “Terri,” called me up one evening. At the time, they identified as female, but that night they felt compelled to come out to me as trans. By the end of summer in 2012, they had changed their name to Terry and identified as male. For…

  June 4, 2016

  Activism, Culture, Education, equality, Equity, Gender, Hate Crime, Human Rights, LGBTQ, mental health, Non-Profit, Police, Politics, race, Social Justice, Television

• The Week in Stories Around the Globe

  

  In Hiroshima 71 years after first atomic strike, Obama calls for end of nuclear weapons     President Obama called for an end to nuclear weapons in a solemn visit to Hiroshima to offer respects to the victims of the world’s first deployed atomic bomb. #Obama #Hiroshima #NuclearWeapons Ghana to Ban Sale of Skin Bleaching…

  June 1, 2016

  Education, equality, Equity, Gender, Hate Crime, LGBTQ, Politics, race, Social Justice

• Blue Jeans and Cheerios Make Racists Go Cray Cray: On Interracial Love in the U.S.

  

  The Controversy On April 26, 2016, Old Navy sent out a tweet that drove the Twitter-Verse into a frenzy and rapidly sparked a backlash from the loveliest of twitter trolls. “What was the cause of this venomous reaction?” you might be asking. It was a tweet for an Old Navy sale ad that featured a…

  May 21, 2016

  Activism, Culture, Dating, Education, equality, Equity, Gender, Hate Crime, History, Human Rights, Marriage, Politics, race, Social Justice, Social Media, Television

• The Rise of the White Savior Complex and Our Failure in Diversity

  

  What do movies like Dangerous Minds, Hardball, and The Freedom Writers all have in common? They’re all movies detailing a well-meaning white person coming into the ‘hood’ to save all of the little black and brown children from themselves and the wayward people in the community. The White Savior Complex is a modern spin on…

  March 30, 2016

  Activism, Culture, Drugs, Education, equality, Equity, Feminism, film, Gender, History, Human Rights, LGBTQ, Manhood, mental health, Newspaper, Non-Profit, Politics, Poverty, race, Social Justice, Technology, Television, Veteran, Writer, Youth

• 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

• Cam Newton and the Curious Case of the Confident Black Person

  

  Superbowl 50 and the Press Conference from Hell Carolina Panthers Quarterback Cam Newton hasn’t had the best few weeks. On February 7, 2016, he and his team lost the Super Bowl to the Denver Broncos in front of a live audience of 114 million people. And there was a controversial Beyoncé halftime performance (that warrants…

  February 28, 2016

  equality, Equity, Gender, Manhood, Music, Newspaper, Politics, race, Social Media, Sports