Trigger Warning: Race/Identity This piece will only be uncomfortable with those who may take offense to the following statement: I have four Black-American grandparents. I know that this statement FEELS aggressive but trust me, it only FEELS that way. This is not poking a wound. In fact it is the…
Today is July 4th. Apparently it is also the 244th celebration of the birth of a nation: America, land of the free, home of the brave. This 4th hits a little different though. Not for Black people. Nah. Frederick Douglass gave his “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of…
TL;DR:We are not our ancestors’ wildest dreams. In fact, we may be their nightmare. Scroll down to W.E.B. DuBois opinion piece from the May 1922 issue of “The Crisis” titled “Kicking Us Out” where he points out how the two-party system works AGAINST the Black progress movement and that Black…
TL;DR: Black people were not impacted the same as Whites during the 1918 flu pandemic however we are more vulnerable now. The low death rate for Blacks during the 1918 pandemic is partially due to segregation which kept our exposures limited due to “defacto” quarantines. Also, segregation meant that there…
The 2019 annual Homeless Assessment Report (HAR) to Congress reported 568,000 homeless Americans, a 2.7% jump from the previous year. Of that, 39.8% of the homeless population are Black. That number increases to 52% when assessing homeless people with children. Let me run that back. Of the 568,000 homeless Americans in this…