Maya Angelou said, ‘You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it…

Written by Ominira Mars, guest author, and graduate student Blackfishing (a pop-culture term used to describe nonBlack people online who utilize different mediums to appear Black) is a trend that should not only be applicable to online experiences but non-virtual ones as well. In this article, I discuss an open…

To the Doctors Collecting Uteruses: My Grandma Said, “Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone.” When I was a little girl, my grandmother used to have this saying, “every goodbye ain’t gone.” She said it to wisely let us know that just because we thought a story was over does not mean that…

Yesterday, we received the news that Chadwick Boseman, the actor who played Black Panther, passed away due to colon cancer. Since then, parents have informed their children that Black Panther died. Instead of saying Black Panther is dead, we should tell our children Black Panther returned to the ancestral plain…

Yesterday morning, I listened to Kamala Harris, the Vice Presidential Nominee, credit Joe Biden for having the audacity to select her, a Black woman, to be his running mate. I was disappointed because Harris’s slogan when she ran for president was “For the People,” Ta-Nehisi Coates points out, “the question…

Aaminah Norris: Recently, I sat for a conversation with my cousin Sharn who is my mom’s first cousin. Because he is from my mom’s generation he has some ideas about policing and police brutality that are a lot different than mine. Sharn points out that Black people are defiant with…

My experience as a child of Civil Rights activists influences my commitment to teaching and learning. My parents raised me with the support of mentors who provided key insights into what it means to be involved in the movements for Civil Rights and Black Power. …

To survive the threat to our health and safety caused by reopening schools during a global pandemic, let’s rely on Black women educators to help us understand what it will take to transform our conception of teaching and learning. We can use them as guides to build a path away…

Black Americans experience, “a terror relayed not by the dogs, hoses, and bombs in the new South of the sixties, but by the near nonchalance of legal murder anywhere in the United States today: as if these living breathing black citizens, now dead, were not supposed to go about their…