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Our elders are more than the utility they provide

The problem of visibility at the intersection of aging, poverty and Blackness predates me, finding its genesis on the plantation grounds.

Anti-Blackness and the Fetishization of Visibility

Anti-blackness, predictably, got in the way of something that had the potential to be a commentary on the politics of visibility under racial capitalism.

Self healing was the key to pursuing ministry in my senior years

The call to ministry became clearer when some friends and I started opening our homes to people who had no place to live; people who had fallen through the cracks of the social "safety" net.

Words our fathers should have said: Encouragement for other Black cis-het men experiencing body-dysmorphia

I hoarded bodybuilding magazines and wasted nights diagramming routines which earned me more injuries than benefit. In the gym, I exercised to nausea, vomited and despised myself for being ill equipped for exercise regimens designed to market magazines.

Toni Morrison's "A Mercy" reminds us all of the power Black and Native American solidarity wields

Black and Indigenous communities bear the brunt of social and environmental injustices from the same systems of oppression.

Race & Blackness

After temporarily removing Christopher Columbus statues from Chicago Parks, on August 12th, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced the “Project to Assess Memorials and Monuments in the City’s Public Art Collection.” Members of this project will form an advisory committee with local artists, academics and public officials to promote “racial healing and historical reckoning” for the Chicago…

Trump is right, “To be anti-racist is to be anti-American”

If your anti-racism is concerned with upholding the mythology of America then you are not an anti-racist. When we cower away from accusations that anti-racism is un-American we perpetuate falsehoods that any type of liberation can exist under the banner of America.

Liberals won’t save us, even if they are Black

But voting is not and will never be enough. Voting often legitimizes the never ending good cop/bad cop routine of the two party system.

Black Life is a Constant Practice of Mutual Aid Work

Those feelings of hopelessness have given me time to re-examine the ways American, individualistic values have seeped into Black life. And perhaps those values have prevented us from acknowledging that we’ve always prioritized and practiced communal care in our families, neighborhoods and relationships.

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Imagining Other Worlds: A Short Stories Series by Black Fiction Writers

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On Saturday, June 20th, 62-year-old Ejaz Choudry, a Pakistani man living with schizophrenia, was tragically and violently killed by Peel Region Police in Mississauga, Ontario. Choudry’s family called the non-emergency police line to help the man as he suffered through a state of distress, only for him to be shot to death. Many South Asians,…

Rest is an ode to our ancestors and an invitation for our movements

Making space for stillness is an ode to those of us who have not and are unable to rest. It is an acknowledgement for those of us for which rest has been stolen.

We shouldn’t have to be murdered to prove that Black people are divine

We dare to make due out of the scraps given to us by creating new things out of the old, salvaging things that seem lost, bringing life to spaces where death once reigned, rolling away the proverbial stone and resurrecting. It is only through the story of Black people in this country that Christianity has an American relevance at all.

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Our elders are more than the utility they provide

Self healing was the key to pursuing ministry in my senior years

Running as an act of Resistance

Interview with Jody Armour on Nigga Theory

The problem with using proximity & poverty to dismiss the fallacies of “Black-on-Black crime”

Words our fathers should have said: Encouragement for other Black cis-het men experiencing body-dysmorphia

Black women’s impossible dilemma: How this world ties our “safety” to the protection of our abusers

Police can’t save children from sexual abuse, but we must

The problem with using proximity & poverty to dismiss the fallacies of “Black-on-Black crime”

The perils of navigating platonic relationships with other gay men

Anti-Blackness and the Fetishization of Visibility

We don’t need advisory committees to take the first steps toward healing from white supremacy

Trump is right, “To be anti-racist is to be anti-American”

Liberals won’t save us, even if they are Black

Black Life is a Constant Practice of Mutual Aid Work

The publishing industry cannot continue to hide its anti-Blackness behind their #BlackBestSeller

How “Gayle King v. Kobe Bryant” obscured a valid critique of sensationalizing sexual violence

What happened to Wilder during his loss was sexual violence, something that Black men know too well

I hope you catch AIDS and die

No Jay-Z, corporate sponsorships cannot replace protests

Self healing was the key to pursuing ministry in my senior years

Non-Black Muslims will never find justice without ensuring Black Lives Matter

Rest is an ode to our ancestors and an invitation for our movements

We shouldn’t have to be murdered to prove that Black people are divine

Black folks have always partaken in African Traditional Religion, even when we didn’t know it.

Toni Morrison’s “A Mercy” reminds us all of the power Black and Native American solidarity wields

Interview with Jody Armour on Nigga Theory

Elite education left blood on my hands. Now it’s my responsibility to heal the damage

The anti-Black intellectual hierarchy built by standardized testing needs to come down

Harvard denying Prof. García-Peña tenure reminds us elite schools are only here to exploit Black & Indigenous people

On Black Death and grieving modalities

What we can learn from the history of HIV surveillance during the era of COVID-19

There is a COVID-19 conspiracy. Scaring Black people away from healthcare & vaccination is part of it

Social distancing is just part of the problem if we don’t account for anti-Blackness

It’s not Black people’s responsibility to end anti-Asian racism