I’ll be honest, I’m guilty of this although I am trying to get out of the habit. I think I always thought that I was doing the right thing by asking for experiences outside my own. I am very interested in hearing the experiences of two of the Black men who were once my classmates as I realize that they both should been given more advanced…

On Being a White Woman Watching Black Men on TV Speak about the Baltimore Protests

I am constantly fighting my own internalized racism as I react to ways of speaking, to modes of dress, to how the mythology of urban gangs overwrites for me what the men are trying to tell me about who they are and what they are doing. I’m…

Baltimore Doesn’t Need You, Your Own City Does

Why are people talking about going to Baltimore? I’m guessing the same people went to Ferguson and my response is the same: make change where you are. Don’t hop onto someone else’s ship that they have suffered to maintain. There is more than enough…

Baltimore — Still Rising?

We’re coming up on the one year anniversary of the the events that took place in Baltimore on April 27th 2015. Some call it riots. Some call it a reaction. Some call it a revolution. Others coined those events as the Baltimore Uprising.