Did you know that 80 percent of white individual victims are killed by a white individual offender? The FBI reports on crime statistics every year and it turns out most racial groups are the number one offender against themselves. That’s because murder, …
Part of discussing and combatting systemic racism is understanding its impact and hearing directly from those who have been impacted.
Mary Hudson was born at the start of the Civil rights movement and grew up with the hope and pain of the time. As a you…
American history is filled with depictions of women, the LGBT+ community, and persons of color that are deplorable and reprehensible. From “Little Black Sambo” to black face, to advertising, to even Dr. Seuss, the discriminatory past of America can be vi…
Implicit bias is a theory that suggests how we interact and treat others is based on inherited and learned stereotypes and prejudices. The assumptions we make about the world color how we see things and others.
When looking at training and work to check…
The last confederate monument in America was completed in 1972. Not 1872, 1972. From the end of the civil war through the civil rights movement, monuments to a failed attempt to separate the country based on race were raised through America and abroad. T…
Dylan Roof, Charlottesville, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and on and on and on. After so many of these incidents, good-intentioned and well-meaning people like to say “this isn’t the America I know!” “This isn’t us!” “We’re better than this!”
Really? …
In 1961 James Baldwin, when being interviewed about being Black in America, said the following, “To be negro in America and relatively conscience is to be in a state of rage, almost all of the time.” 60 years later, the sentiment still exists. Police bru…
Just finished Free Solo. Lots of thoughts, but the biggest takeaway was the presence of the film crew and its impact.
When you see Black folks getting upset about blackface, racist comments, police brutality, and the overall unchanging disrespect of Black people in America, we’re not angry about slavery or building the country for free or the systematic abuse and torture of our ancestors. That’s just a small part of it. We’re angrier because it’s still …
So, I did it. I quit my job. As a professor of all things. I know most people think being a professor is an easy cushy thing, and it can be if you allow it. My problem was, I wanted to do more, all the time. I wanted to be a part of the best …