MoveOn is hosting a Google Hangout: Tuesday, July 30 (tomorrow) at 8:PM ET. I’m joining NAACP’s Jotaka Eaddy, Colorlines.com’s Rinku Sen, Dream Defenders’ Ciara Taylor, 18MillionRising’s Christina Samala, and We Are Not Trayvon Martin’s Joseph Phelan in a special roundtable broadcast live online, to talk about how we can work together to grow this new… Continue reading Join the New Civil Rights Movement
Tag: Racism
Trayvon
The verdict is in. Moments ago six women in Sanford, FLA found Zimmerman not guilty of the murder of Trayvon Martin. I’ve come here to write about this and find myself at a complete loss for words. I did not think that six women, most of them mothers, would find this man not guilty. And… Continue reading Trayvon
Jim Crow ~ by any other name
Jim Crow ~ still around. Lucky for us some really smart people continue to wrap their brains around racism—still so pervasive in America, and in some cases on the rise BECAUSE we have a black man in the White House. Remember ~ the bigots are procreating, too, so let’s keep the conversations/actions going.