#BlackoutTuesday Is Over. The Work Needs To Continue. Now that #BlackoutTuesday is finished, the work needed to dismantle racism has only begun.
Systemic Racism Is Neither A Self-Inflicted Nor A Self-Correcting Wound During the 2016 NFL season, then San Francisco 49ers quarterback, Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem to protest police brutality. Even though retired Green Beret Nick Boyer convinced Kaepernick to take a knee and not sit - backlash ensued. Kaepernick has yet to find employment in the
How Many More? Photo Credit: Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via AP To be a black person in America is to accept the underlying companion of survival mode. It’s there when we wake up, when we leave our homes, and when we try to make a living. As we enter boardrooms, department stores,
Creating In the Time of Quarantine About six years ago, I started a random Tumblr account and named it Shirt, Shoes, and Pants Required. I remember that the phrase just stuck out to me, but really think about it. You see that sign outside a random convenience store and immediately wonder, “why not pants?” Wouldn’t