17 BULLETS
17 Bullets My first bullet was my warning shot My second bullet was my power shot My third bullet was because my trigger finger couldn’t stop My forth bullet was my pain shot My fifth bullet was for...
View ArticleWho Raised You?
I remember when I was kid, there were certain things that we COULD NOT do not around adults. For starters, if an adult was talking to another adult, talking on the phone, or simply talking then we...
View ArticleQuestions to a Killer
I keep hearing these lyrics from Tupac’s Me Against the World playing in my head, “Cant reach the children cause they illing, addicted to killing and the appeal of the cap peeling without feeling, when...
View ArticleLetter to Maya Angelou
Dear Maya, It is difficult for me to automatically speak on a subject that is very near and dear to my heart, but I would have remiss if I did not speak about my Maya Angelou. I needed time to process...
View ArticleBlack Music’s Love of White Supremacy
While the typical stereotype of a black person, is that they are mean, angry, ghetto, inhospitable and hard to get along with, the truth of the matter is that blacks are probably the most open and...
View ArticleAre Latino Immigrants the New Black Citizens: Or Are We All the Same?
The Unites States is this supposedly great country that professes to be a melting pot, whereas all are welcomed. But how true is that? Is this country really the land of the free and the home of the...
View ArticleDangerously Unemployed: Black, Educated and Gifted; The Talented Tenth
I have a friend who was born and raised in one of the most impoverished cities in America, with one of the highest crime rates in the US. Despite coming from a city that reflects all of the...
View ArticleMichael Jordan Is Not His Brother’s Keeper, So Why Are We Dying For His Sneakers
We have all seen and read the news stories of people being beaten, killed and the crazy mobs that happen over a pair of Jordans. Now I am not going to sit here and pretend to be on high horse, because...
View ArticleMaterialism: The Black Family’s Inheritance
I had a conversation with my cousin the other day and she said something that furthered triggered some feelings that I had been having. We were talking about school shopping for her son and she stated...
View ArticleBlack NonProfits, Black Leadership: Black Failure
Black nonprofits under black leadership are supposed to benefit the people right? But what happens when the head of an organization, movement or corporation is so out of touch with the world that they...
View ArticleFerguson: What the Media Won’t Show
As we all know, when it comes to black and brown people, the media oftentimes does not accurately tell our story. They will twist and turn it around, until even Hitler seems like a Saint. Yes, there...
View ArticleA Walk Down Ferguson: The Beauty In Our Protest
Imagine having an entire generation of young people, who have all loss someone close to them to a violent death. There is a collective pain that not even they understand. Most of them feel as if...
View ArticlePull a Trigger, Kill a N*gger, He’s a Hero? Video Footage of Another Police...
$2 for a soda $1 for a cigar, what is a black life worth? Below is the video footage of the second young black man that has been shot and killed in St. Louis, MO within the last two weeks. I watched...
View ArticlePeace and Positivity: Even When it Hurts
Prejudice looks something like this, seeing someone and without even knowing their name much less their character you judge them based off of what they look like. Humanity then is when they speak and...
View ArticleUndercover Colors: Date Rape Detection Fingernail Polish
Some gruesome statistics about rape culture in America, is that a woman is sexually assaulted every two minutes. Further, 1 in every 4 college women have been sexually assaulted, 60% of rapes are never...
View ArticleDo Black Lives Matter to the Divine Nine: Black Greeks’ Silence on Ferguson...
The date was March 3, 1913 when the women of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., participated in their first act of social service by way of the Women’s Suffrage March. Not only were they women, but...
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