The racial reckoning in the United States during the uprisings of 2020, amid a global pandemic that exposed and exacerbated the disproportionate structural violence that Black people experience, consolidated millions of people under the provocative banner: Defund the Police as a deepening and continuation of the Black Lives Matter social…

Originally written April 30th 2015 The day I apologize for broken windows and burned buildings, will be the day that black people are truly free. Freddie Gray: another name of a person who’s black body was treated as something disposable, worthless, without the dignity afforded to cattle. But Gray, like…

Originally written on Monday, December 21, 2015 11:21pm: the moment I learned that the killers at Waller County Jail would face no capital charges for the deliberate, violent, wordless lynching of Sandra Bland. The historical context of this grand jury decision to deny Bland the dignity of having the circumstances…

Originally written on Thursday, July 7 2016 The sickled tongue of the camera phone gave truth to the world, while one image, the pop of five bullets woke the agitated child. We exhaled, and the ancestors poured from our throats, like the Black blood on the pavement. The sickled tongue…

When I read the news that Dylan Roof’s conviction and death sentence was upheld by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, I breathed a sigh of relief while also frustrated that so many who say they want to see the death penalty abolished are applauding the court’s decision. …