It is not enough for me to tell you how brokenhearted I am
It is not enough for me to know that your liberation is also my liberation
To move to abundance, I will hold [...]
What if we had a system of community care and safety organized around the values of dignity, wellbeing, safety, restoration and love?
What if we thought about the application of care before we thought [...]
Am I relieved that the cop was fired?
Yes.
Am I happy the cop was fired?
No.
Do I worry that people think this was an isolated incident, rather than a widespread, daily reality for students of [...]
I am raising a young Black boy in a society that is set up to set him up for failure.
This means I am often in protection mode: protection against educational inequity, unfair [...]
Last year, as the uprising in Ferguson and the movement for Black lives sparked direct action all across the country, many of us turned out on the streets – and actively spread the [...]
One year after Michael Brown’s murder and the uprising in Ferguson, we need vision more than ever.
As a Black woman, I know that we must aggressively imagine what it looks like when we are free, [...]
I am an ally in the movement for Black lives, so social and alternative media are my required reading. It’s there – not in the shamefully racist and sensationalistic corporate media – where I [...]
November 20 marks Trans Day of Remembrance, a day to honor the many who have been killed by violence aimed at transgender people. Let’s Talk commemorates this day with art created by Micah [...]
A few years back I was invited to a conversation about race, spirituality, disability and sexuality. I was excited: “Yeah, let’s go there!” I thought.
So there I sat, waiting for the forum to [...]
Strength. Dignity. Power.
These are words that come to my mind in the images from Ferguson October, the recent days of action protesting the August 9 police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
From [...]
Surveillance kills people: we need to start saying what this is. This isn’t about the techies and Snowdens of the world; this is about our communities, our people, our lives.
– Lara Kiswani, [...]
This past July I went to Netroots where I was honored to attend powerful sessions like “The Resurgence of Black Feminism” and “Ain’t I an Organizer? How Women of Color are the Future [...]
Movement building demands leadership for the whole: leadership grounded in the strength of most impacted communities and able to lead the whole of society. Powerful movements need groups like The Organization for Black [...]
In the past four months, more than 15,000 Detroit households have had their water shut off, generating a crisis the United Nations calls “a violation of the human right to water and other [...]
I am a Youth Leader for the Youth Table that has come together to ensure the voices of young people are heard in My Brother’s Keeper and the new national initiatives for boys [...]
Last week I went to Voices of Our Nation, the week long program for emerging writers of color that co-founder Junot Díaz wrote about in his New Yorker article “MFA v. POC.”
A former [...]
A few months ago I spoke to Eva Paterson, president of the Equal Justice Society, who described “disturbing trends in some national foundations; a pulling away from race where they seem to be [...]
Erica Woodland works with Brown Boi Project, an organization seeking to transform the way people of color experience gender and to create healthy models of masculinity. Erica has worked for more than a [...]
