“Nonviolence as Compliance”

“The people now calling for nonviolence are not prepared to answer these questions. Many of them are charged with enforcing the very policies that led to Gray’s death, and yet they can offer no rational justification for Gray’s death and so they appeal for calm. But there was no…

“After an Uneasy Start, Finding Common Ground to Discuss Race Relations at Work”

“Some readers argued that it was inappropriate — and potentially inflammatory — to talk about race on the job. “It’s irrelevant to performing our jobs, which is what we’re hired to do,” one…

“We have a right to be in the streets for Freddie”

“According to the American Civil Liberties Union, between 2010 and 2014, 109 people died in Maryland after encounters with police — Baltimore City had the highest number in the state at 31. Around 70 percent of those who died from police…

“100 Years of Beauty — Episode 4: Korea (Tiffany)”

“THIS IS NOT MY CINDERELLA”

“Admittedly, I hoped that the newest live-action adaptation would follow in the footsteps of Annie (released earlier this year), and continue the tradition of the Cinderella I knew and loved. Instead the cast is nearly completely white, and normally, I wouldn’t care because white…

“Poor teens in Baltimore face worse conditions than those in Nigeria — study”

“In the five neighborhoods examined in the study, poverty was the common thread that linked these culturally diverse locations. Differences among the teens in these urban areas became obvious…

“US media coverage of Michelle Obama’s Saudi Arabia trip isn’t just wrong — it’s racist”

“those narratives are all false, on specific factual grounds as well as broader conceptual grounds. Declarations that she made a “bold political statement” don’t just exist in a…

“Baltimore’s real, untelevised revolution”

“I was crushed not because the violence lasted longer than the peace, but because the revolution Baltimore worked hard to create was not televised for what it truly was or is. The revolution was televised as angry citizens burning flags, looting stores…