Good Morning Everybody! I wanna change things up a little bit for us today. As you may know, every single day of the week, I write about injustice and police brutality and racial discrimination for the New York Daily News. As an activist, I’m helping to lead the Injustice Boycott. Every Tuesday and Thursday morning […]
The legendary James Baldwin once said that “To be Black in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all of the time.” This morning, all I can do is keep it real. I must confess that I’m angry, frustrated, and right on the verge of that rage […]
Today, on the 61st anniversary of the launch of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, now just hours after a major victory was won for the people of Standing Rock, hundreds of thousands of us have joined together to take an organized stand against racial injustice and police brutality in America. This is the Injustice Boycott. It’s […]
69 people have been shot & killed by police since Donald Trump was elected President. Yet most of us could not name a single one of those victims because for most of this month, and I understand it, I’m one of you, we’ve been so terrified of what it means that Donald Trump will […]
In the hook to Drake’s new song, “Fake Love,” he has a lyric that says “I’ve been down so long it look like up to me. I got fake people showin’ fake love to me. “ Can I be real this morning? For far too long, those lines could perfectly describe the plight of Black […]
It has now been two weeks since our country elected Donald Trump as the next President of the United States. I have to admit that 14 days later, it’s still painful to accept that we are going from President Barack Obama to President Donald Trump. In fact, if anything at all is clear, it […]
Since Donald Trump was elected President last week, I’ve received thousands and thousands of emails from all over the country reporting a terrible increase in hate crimes and bigotry and racism and intimidation. At first, I’d simply read them, do my best to verify them however I could, then share them on Facebook and […]
On Sunday evening, Donald Trump announced that his Chief Strategist in the White House will be Stephen Bannon. It was the first announcement he made for staffers and is a clear signal that we don’t have to wait and see who Trump values most in the world or whether or not he will become […]
Over the past 24 hours I received hundreds and hundreds of accounts of men, women, and children who were targeted, harassed, and assaulted by emboldened Donald Trump supporters. Latinos were told to go back to Mexico Black folk were told to go back to Africa Muslim women had their hijab ripped off LGBT folk […]
Today I will be casting my vote to stop Donald Trump and my hope, my prayer is everyone who hears this will not only join me, but encourage everybody they know to do the same thing. In spite of everything we now know about the man, every vulgar and offensive statement Donald Trump has […]
Early yesterday morning something truly terrible happened. Two police officers in Iowa were shot and killed. Police described each successive shooting as an ambush that each officer never saw coming. Like most officers, these men had adoring families and a network of friends and colleagues who are absolutely devastated by this loss. I hate […]
A huge part of my calling in life is to tell stories of injustice that simply aren’t being told anywhere else. That’s why over the past few weeks I’ve come on here to talk about the young Beaumont Bulls football team or Deborah Danner and Renee Davis – two women struggling with mental illness […]
