“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.” ― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography We are living through history. The second iteration of the Roaring 20s came in…
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May 4th, 1961, thirteen brave individuals boarded two buses in Washington, DC with the goal of traveling through the Deep Jim Crow South to New Orleans, to test the 1960 Supreme Court ruling of Boynton v. Virginia, which declared segregated facilities for interstate passengers illegal. The “Freedom Rides” were initiated…
We lost an icon. You should know his name. You should respect his legacy. During the mid-to-late 90s, Dr. Ozel Clifford Brazil was a name mainly known amongst the black population in Los Angeles. A Black scholar, activist, minister, and leader who started the Los Angeles Community Outreach Program, which hosted college-prep workshops…
Guess who’s not celebrating a killer cop being charged for murdering Atatiana Jefferson, in her own damn home, playing video games with her nephew? Me. Why? Because that was what the fuck is supposed to happen. He should have been immediately detained and fired. But #Amerikkka got us so fucked…