2019 Update: In the 2018 election, women, especially women of color, showed up and showed out! The strength and resilience of black, Latinx, and Native women will be the change we need to make America a government for the people and by the people. The Read More …
While at the Toronto International Film Festival, I had a chance to catch the screening of Grace Jones: Bloodlight & Bami. For the life of me I can’t understand why she wasn’t in the Wonder Woman movie. I am hoping that Marvel’s Black Panther gives her a cameo. She is virtually Read More …
Update: Science and medicine typically treated African-Americans as guinea pigs under the unfounded belief that we did not feel pain to justify operating without anesthesia. Even today, a study showed that some “white medical students and residents [surveyed] endorsed false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites. Read More …
2019 Update: In 2016 and again in 2018, 53% of white women voted for Trump and Republican candidates despite some being womanizers, a brothel owner, neo-Nazi, and accused pedophiles. In the case of Alabama Republican nominee, Roy Moore, two-thirds of white women voted for him. Read More …
2018 Update: Why didn’t Christine Blasey Ford report Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when it happened? That is the tired refrain trotted out whenever a woman comes forward. Victims of rape and sexual assault are often blamed for the crime committed against them and male victims Read More …
2019 Update: As some murmur about why we have a MLK holiday and Black History Month, the Guardian reports, “the FBI investigated a civil rights organization for potential “conspiracy” against the “rights” of the “Ku Klux Klan” and white supremacists” and the rise of the Proud Boys (organizers of Read More …