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Prisoner Dehumanization and Lack of Rehabilitation

Azure Onyewu

Mar 13, 2021

Prisoner Dehumanization and Lack of Rehabilitation

Many prisoners in the United States encounter an inability to cope with the troubles of the outside world after they have served their...

How Trump Insurrectionists Gave Away the Moral High Ground of the Right

Kamsi Obiorah

Jan 9, 2021

How Trump Insurrectionists Gave Away the Moral High Ground of the Right

I expected Wednesday to be a day of celebration. I woke up to the projected win of Georgia Senate-elects Raphael Warnock and Jon Osso...

Public to Private School: A Racial Transition

Bethel Girma

Nov 14, 2020

Public to Private School: A Racial Transition

If I was told to describe my overall experience in school and the journey it has given me as a young woman of color, I would solely provi...

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Black Lives Matter Is Not a Trend

Lelena Fissehazion

Dec 26, 2020

The Injustices of the Criminal Justice System

Ruva Kiara

Aug 3, 2020

The Injustices of the Criminal Justice System

Art Activism in the Black Lives Matter Movement

Kennedy Ferguson

Jul 31, 2020

Art Activism in the Black Lives Matter Movement

Black Mental Health Should Matter To Us, Too

Anijah Bond

Jul 27, 2020

Black Mental Health Should Matter To Us, Too

Kennedy Ferguson

Jan 30, 2021

Bus Rides at PWIs

One of the worst things about being an African American girl going to a predominantly white private school an hour away from your house w...

Is Biden's Inauguration Something to Celebrate?

Olufolake Majekodunmi

Jan 23, 2021

Is Biden's Inauguration Something to Celebrate?

After four chaotic years under the leadership of former President Donald Trump, Joe Biden was inaugurated on January 20. Meanwhile, the e...

The Story of Dustin Higgs: Black People and the Death Penalty

Niyat Theodores

Feb 13, 2021

The Story of Dustin Higgs: Black People and the Death Penalty

On January 16, 48 year old Dustin Higgs was executed, being the 13th…

Hassina Sadara

Jul 20, 2020

Which Black Lives Matter?

In this most recent wave of the Black Lives Matter movement, there has been more discussion about who falls under...

Grace Brigham

Sep 12, 2020

Light-Skin Privilege Exists

As a little girl growing up in an interracial family with a black mother and a white father, I did not think about race that often. My fa...

Gentrification and the Displacement of Black and Low-Income People in D.C.

Lelena Fissehazion

Jan 16, 2021

Gentrification and the Displacement of Black and Low-Income People in D.C.

For the past 17 years in my life, I have lived in the same neighborhood...

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Deona Marie: Another Protester Fallen Victim to the Extralegal Violence of White Supremacists

Kamsi Obiorah

Jul 24, 2021

Deona Marie: Another Protester Fallen Victim to the Extralegal Violence of White Supremacists

On June 16, Courtney Paris, her partner Lavish Mack, and several other protesters gathered in Uptown Minneapolis to celebrate the birthda...

Donna Nkurunziza

Jul 17, 2021

The Essence of a Black Mother

Imagine that you are a young, brilliant woman on the edge of motherhood. Your ebony skin crinkles at the thought that you are going to be...

Why Black History Month Should Be Less About a Traumatic History and More About Celebration

Destiny Attagba

Jul 3, 2021

Why Black History Month Should Be Less About a Traumatic History and More About Celebration

Every February, black and non-black Americans alike learn about and “celebrate” the progress and many sacrifices that African Americans h...

Interview: Don't Call Imani Barbarin Inspiring

Kamsi Obiorah

Jun 26, 2021

Interview: Don't Call Imani Barbarin Inspiring

You might know Imani Barbarin if you are one of her 113,000 followers on Twitter who stumbled across one of her trending hashtags: #Patie...

Inmates Are People Too: The Effect of Poor Mental Health Care in Prisons

Bree Bonner

May 22, 2021

Inmates Are People Too: The Effect of Poor Mental Health Care in Prisons

In Alissa Roth’s book, Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness she says, “More than half the prisoners incarcerated in...

Black Women: Influential Leaders of the Black Panther Party

Joella Kiondo

May 1, 2021

Black Women: Influential Leaders of the Black Panther Party

Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale started The Black Panther Party for Self Defense (BPP) in Oakland, California, in 1966. The BPP, with a...

Interview: Artie Mack and His Reflections on Ableism and Monoculture

Kamsi Obiorah

Apr 10, 2021

Interview: Artie Mack and His Reflections on Ableism and Monoculture

Artie Mack is a black deaf queer scholar who is taking the world by storm. Before he amassed over 39,000 followers on TikTok, Artie co-ho...

Anti-Miscegnation Laws and Its Relationship with Interracial Crime Disparity

Milena Negussie

Apr 3, 2021

Anti-Miscegnation Laws and Its Relationship with Interracial Crime Disparity

Nine years before it went to the Supreme Court, Richard and Mildred Loving were legally married in D.C. in 1958. They were sentenced to...

Trapped and Dehumanized: Solitary Confinement’s Lasting Impact on Juveniles

Melat Mesfin

Mar 27, 2021

Trapped and Dehumanized: Solitary Confinement’s Lasting Impact on Juveniles

Severe restriction of environmental and social stimulation has an injurious effect on mental and physical functioning. In the United...

Lelena Fissehazion

Mar 20, 2021

The True Colors of the Justice System

The United States has a complicated history with race. Throughout different eras in American history, African Americans continue to fall...

Azure Onyewu

Mar 13, 2021

Prisoner Dehumanization and Lack of Rehabilitation

Many prisoners in the United States encounter an inability to cope with the troubles of the outside world after they have served their...

What Is the Alt-Right Part Two: How the Average Person Can Help Win the Fight Against Extremism

Anijah Bond

Mar 6, 2021

What Is the Alt-Right Part Two: How the Average Person Can Help Win the Fight Against Extremism

We can all agree that many major events have taken place since the start of the new year. From the insurrection at the Capitol on Januar...

Trump’s Second Acquittal: The Senate's Failure to Deliver Justice to the American People, Again

Ruva Kiara

Feb 27, 2021

Trump’s Second Acquittal: The Senate's Failure to Deliver Justice to the American People, Again

Despite the controversial views of Donald Trump, the former president both tragically and ironically made history as the President of the...

Interview: Death Penalty Action Is Putting the Abolition of Capital Punishment on the Map

Kamsi Obiorah

Feb 20, 2021

Interview: Death Penalty Action Is Putting the Abolition of Capital Punishment on the Map

In the midst of state sanctioned violence that deliberately targets poor communities of color, one non-for-profit organization has stood...

Niyat Theodores

Feb 13, 2021

The Story of Dustin Higgs: Black People and the Death Penalty

On January 16, 48 year old Dustin Higgs was executed, being the 13th…

COVID-19 Is Ravaging Minority Communities

McKenzie Ennis

Feb 6, 2021

COVID-19 Is Ravaging Minority Communities

There is no doubt that COVID-19 has negatively impacted many people in our country, but the disparities that people of color face has put...

Kennedy Ferguson

Jan 30, 2021

Bus Rides at PWIs

One of the worst things about being an African American girl going to a predominantly white private school an hour away from your house w...

Olufolake Majekodunmi

Jan 23, 2021

Is Biden's Inauguration Something to Celebrate?

After four chaotic years under the leadership of former President Donald Trump, Joe Biden was inaugurated on January 20. Meanwhile, the e...

Lelena Fissehazion

Jan 16, 2021

Gentrification and the Displacement of Black and Low-Income People in D.C.

For the past 17 years in my life, I have lived in the same neighborhood...

Kamsi Obiorah

Jan 9, 2021

How Trump Insurrectionists Gave Away the Moral High Ground of the Right

I expected Wednesday to be a day of celebration. I woke up to the projected win of Georgia Senate-elects Raphael Warnock and Jon Osso...

Commentary: Hate Crimes Against Black Americans

Taya Toomer

Jan 2, 2021

Commentary: Hate Crimes Against Black Americans

When I first think of hate crimes against black people, I immediately think of the rampant lynchings that occurred in the early South and...

Lelena Fissehazion

Dec 26, 2020

Black Lives Matter Is Not a Trend

It may seem easy for people to go back to their lives as if nothing happened because their feed went back to normal. However, black peopl...

Kamsi Obiorah

Dec 19, 2020

The Death Penalty Is Obsolete

The death penalty is a dehumanizing method of punishment that executes a prisoner for a heinous crime. Due to the biased criminal justice...

Anijah Bond

Dec 12, 2020

What Is the Alt-Right Part One

The “Alt-Right” is a term that many Americans have been familiar with over the past few years, especially during the Trump administration...

What Motivates Me as a Black Basketball Player

Simone Lewis

Dec 5, 2020

What Motivates Me as a Black Basketball Player

A variety of things motivate different people. What motivates me as a young black female basketball player are my goals. I have set long...

Does Trump Leaving Office Mean Black Lives Finally Matter?

Destiny Attagba

Nov 28, 2020

Does Trump Leaving Office Mean Black Lives Finally Matter?

With Joe Biden projected to be the next U.S. president, many black people are feeling a rush of relief and excitement. The Biden-Harris...

Trump Failed to "Make America Great Again"

Luindeni Baker

Nov 21, 2020

Trump Failed to "Make America Great Again"

The Presidential Election is over and President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris, the first woman and person of col...

Bethel Girma

Nov 14, 2020

Public to Private School: A Racial Transition

If I was told to describe my overall experience in school and the journey it has given me as a young woman of color, I would solely provi...

A Guide on Ways to Support Black Lives Matter

Niyat Theodores

Nov 7, 2020

A Guide on Ways to Support Black Lives Matter

In 1944, 14-year-old George Stinney was executed by the electric chair. He was convicted for the murder of two young white girls in his h...

The Today, Tomorrow, and Forever of the Black Lives Matter Movement

Zelene Desire

Oct 31, 2020

The Today, Tomorrow, and Forever of the Black Lives Matter Movement

Multitudes of people in the U.S., Africa, Asia, and Europe have protested the death of 46-year-old George Floyd and several other unfort...

Police Brutality Is an Epidemic. #EndSARS

Kamsi Obiorah

Oct 24, 2020

Police Brutality Is an Epidemic. #EndSARS

Police brutality seems to be the norm in countries that value militarized police systems over the actual protection of their citizens...

The Racial Divide Within D.C.'s Ballet Companies

McKenzie Ennis

Oct 24, 2020

The Racial Divide Within D.C.'s Ballet Companies

Classical ballet is a style of dance that has been around since the 1500s with its origins in Italy. It was not brought to America until...

Lelena Fissehazion

Oct 17, 2020

Vote. Vote. Vote.

Voting is something that Americans take for granted. More than half of the countries in the world do not have the opportunity to vote for...

Anijah Bond

Oct 10, 2020

On Not Being “Black Enough”

Growing up, I was a pretty nerdy kid. I watched anime. I listened to K-pop (and I still do), and I was a very eloquent speaker for my age...

Morgan Dixon

Oct 3, 2020

You’re Black? Really?

I have finished my freshman year of high school, making it through rigorous classes, distance learning, and group projects. Yet one aspec...

Kamsi Obiorah

Sep 26, 2020

We Let Breonna Taylor Down

On March 13, Breonna Taylor was asleep in her own home, when police officers Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison, and Myles Cosgrove barg...

Olufolake Majekodunmi

Sep 26, 2020

The Justice System Fails Black Women

This Wednesday, the Kentucky state grand jury made their decision regarding the indictment of the three officers involved in the shooting...

The Intersectionality of the BLM Movement and the LGBTQ+ Movement

Yohana Green

Sep 19, 2020

The Intersectionality of the BLM Movement and the LGBTQ+ Movement

As citizens worldwide protested against racism and police brutality in the aftermath of George Floyd's death, the LGBTQ+ community was...

Grace Brigham

Sep 12, 2020

Light-Skin Privilege Exists

As a little girl growing up in an interracial family with a black mother and a white father, I did not think about race that often. My fa...

Black Lives Matter Is Not a Symbol of Hate

Luindeni Baker

Sep 5, 2020

Black Lives Matter Is Not a Symbol of Hate

The First Amendment of The United States Constitution grants its citizens the right to peaceful protest. So, why it is okay for the polic...

Olufolake Majekodunmi

Aug 24, 2020

The Double Standards of Hip Hop

“There should be a time and a place for adult content.” Rapper and singer Cee Lo Green made those comments on the song “WAP” by Cardi B...

Kamsi Obiorah

Aug 17, 2020

Kamala Harris Just Made History

On June 18, Senator Amy Klobuchar withdrew her name from consideration to be Joe Biden’s vice president. She wanted Biden to pick...

Marlenis Hernandez

Aug 17, 2020

The Reality of Being Afro-Latinx

Hi, I’m Marlenis Hernandez. I was born and raised in Washington, DC, and I’m an Afro-Latina. When I was younger, I was not aware of the....

Salina Mentor

Aug 10, 2020

Ahmaud Arbery Will Not Be Forgotten

On February 23, Ahmaud Arbery was out on a routine jog in the Satilla Shores neighborhood of Brunswick, Georgia, not too far from his ho...

Let’s Take a Step Back From the Criticism: A Take on the Noname and J Cole Situation

Destiny Attagba

Aug 10, 2020

Let’s Take a Step Back From the Criticism: A Take on the Noname and J Cole Situation

Anti-black misogynist or Grammy-winning clap-backer? After dropping "Snow on Tha Bl...

Ruva Kiara

Aug 3, 2020

The Injustices of the Criminal Justice System

The United States has the largest criminal justice system in the world with over 6.7 million individuals in some type of correctional fac...

Kennedy Ferguson

Jul 31, 2020

Art Activism in the Black Lives Matter Movement

Media is one of the most important elements in capturing the life and death of police brutality victims. Not only does media relay the l...

The Importance of Black-Owned Businesses

Camara Kelly

Jul 30, 2020

The Importance of Black-Owned Businesses

I initially thought that writing a piece about the importance of Black-owned businesses would be easy. I sat down to write and got my lap...

What It Is Like Being a Black Lacrosse Player

Kyndall Jackson

Jul 29, 2020

What It Is Like Being a Black Lacrosse Player

I started playing club lacrosse when I was nine years old. I am a Black, female lacrosse player. Black lacrosse player. Those are words t...

Trayvon Martin: The Boy Who Started It All

Tori Davis

Jul 28, 2020

Trayvon Martin: The Boy Who Started It All

Trayvon Martin, a high school student who was visiting his father in Sanford, Florida, was fatally shot coming home from the convenience...

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