Let me start by saying this post will probably be one of the most important posts I’ve written. […]
police brutality
Black History Month is now among us, and as we use this month to commemorate powerful leaders and […]
I was looking up a word in the dictionary and I noticed my word of the day (on 7/9) was jovial. My immediate response to that was “there was nothing jovial about this past week.”
So I wake up this morning, and have the unfortunate task of having to stomach yet another video posted on social media of a man being shot and killed. This morning, I saw another name as a hashtag.
#AltonSterling
If you were watching the BET Awards last night, then you know that Jesse Williams was given the 2016 BET Humanitarian Award. If you watched further, you would have heard this young gentleman render a powerful and thought-provoking speech. I was listening to him, and I immediately got engrossed in what he was saying; it flowed like spoken word poetry.