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The Kansas vote implies that people in 40 to of 50 states support abortion rights. Yet we have laws allowing government officials to...
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- Apr 7, 2022
Persevere
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who will join the United States Supreme Court as the first Black woman in the court’s 233-year history. She...
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- Apr 6, 2022
Silence Is No Longer An Option
A raft of new laws are impacting women’s ability to function as full and equal citizens, including a bill that was approved yesterday in...
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- Feb 1, 2022
ALL THAT SHE CARRIED
Tiya Miles’s ALL THAT SHE CARRIED: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake, is a masterpiece. I thought I had a grasp on...
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- Oct 10, 2021
First Nations
Milwaukee, where I live, sits on unceded territory in the traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest...
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- Sep 28, 2021
I See You
It was a relief when the jury convicted R. Kelly. It took just nine hours. But really, it took thirty years. Why?
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- Aug 11, 2021
No Excuses
He said: “In my mind I’ve never crossed the line with anyone, but I didn’t realize the extent to which the line has been redrawn. There...
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- Jul 7, 2021
A Lighter Burden
I watched the racism, the sexism, and the hypocrisy around Nikole Hannah-Jones and her tenure battle at UNC. The halls of power have a...
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- May 25, 2021
One LONG Year
It has been one year since George Floyd was murdered. According to Statista “the ‘trend of fatal police shootings’ in the United States...
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- Apr 13, 2021
DWB
Driving is not a crime. Murder is. I am exhausted by the excuses made for police officers who murder Black people. I am nauseated by the...
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- Mar 24, 2021
Enough!
This is what women earn compared to every white man’s dollar. This is how many years it will take to close the gender pay gap by race....
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- Mar 22, 2021
Name This Hatred
I have been trying to process the murders in Atlanta. I am struggling. Clearly, they represent the nexus of gender, race, ethnic and...
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- Mar 19, 2021
Empathy in Action with Community Partnerships
A few weeks ago, I invited my community partners to have a chat. Given the horrific events in Atlanta recently, this conversation could...
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- Feb 1, 2021
Why Just February?
As I was considering what to write on the first day of Black History Month, I was again stuck by the irony of celebrating Black...
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- Jan 20, 2021
"Do not tell me things can’t change.”
Today with the inauguration of President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Vice President Kamala Harris, they did. Now, as inaugural poet Amanda...
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- Jan 18, 2021
Our Mutual Destiny
“We’ve got to give ourselves to this struggle until the end,” said Dr. Martin Luther King, the day before he was assassinated. That “we”...
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- Jan 6, 2021
Shame
My heart is heavy. The politics of these days, with a mob of terrorists, wreaking havoc on the United States Capital and thus, the...
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- Dec 31, 2020
Black Queens Rising
The queen is the most powerful piece in the game of chess. Her prominence came with the rise of female monarchs in the 15th century and...
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- Nov 26, 2020
A Day of Thanksgiving and Praise
On October 3, 1863, in the midst of the civil war, a time of great challenge amongst a divided nation, President Abraham Lincoln issued a...
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- Oct 28, 2020
The President. COVID. COVID. COVID. And Wisconsin
Qualitative insights can tell you a lot about the direction of this election. Ironically, the Republican controlled Wisconsin state...
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