Category: History

• 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