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Talking With Your Children About Ferguson and Mike Brown
While the world has watched the events in Ferguson unfold, one of the questions many parents are struggling with is, “How do I talk with my children about what happened in Ferguson?”
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Is Ferguson, Missouri Today’s Selma?
Since the death of Michael Brown by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson on August 19, another African American man, Kajieme Powell, was killed by Ferguson police only days later.
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Considering Black Women at the Intersection of Race, Gender and State Violence
The unfortunate death of Mike Brown has resurfaced a growing frustration with the mistreatment of people of color, especially African Americans, by law enforcement.
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Speaking Truth to Power in a Time of Tragedy
As a junior in college, I changed my major from business to journalism because of my love of writing. That love of writing became a professional passion because of the transcendent words of a powerful black woman who many scholars credit with creating the field of investigative journalism.
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Michael Brown: Addressing the Root of Historical Parallels and Patterns
Fifty years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the monumental legislation intended to outlaw discrimination and segregation based on race, America has yet to live up to its promises.
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Gun Violence: Millennials Deserve Peace
The daily shock and awe of news media coverage associated with the latest high profile act of gun violence in communities throughout the United States has become a sad but true norm in our nation’s culture.
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How Many More Michael Browns Have to Die?
Parts of St. Louis looks like it’s a bombed out war zone. And in reality, it is a war zone … St. Louis is a war zone. The combatants are typically young black men, many just above the age of puberty. They’re at war with each other and by in large, the community is at war with the police.
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Why We Must Reform the NCAA
College football is no longer the innocent little game that Rutgers defeated Stanford in back in 1869. It is now a billion dollar industry with million dollar coaches and mega tv deals and the courts have spoken; players deserve a piece of pie.
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 – Reflections of a Generation Xer
I was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1973. My parents were immigrants from Guyana, a small Caribbean country on the northern coast of South America and they always believed in the American reality: that working hard, being a good person and staying conscientious were virtues with guaranteed dividends.
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Bridging the Intercontinental Leadership Divide: African Energy Association to Host Inaugural Dinner
On Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 The African Energy Association will take its place on the world stage by hosting its inaugural African-US leadership awards dinner at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. and will highlight the over $300 billion dollar opportunity in the African energy sector.
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