This week I decided to share a photo of Amber Guyger and Botham Shem Jean. This photo is important because usually whenever we see police brutality stories in the media, the victim is portrayed negatively. The media usually uses previous mug shots of the victim or images that make the victim look like a criminal. In this image we see the police…[Read more]

I decided to share this photo of a 75 year old woman in Puerto Rico using a lantern because there was no electricity. After the hurricane, Puerto Rico was without power for 11 months. There were many discrepancies from the administration and the media. The citizens of Puerto Rico were also belittled throughout this experience from paper towels…[Read more]

This week I decided to share a photo of the Dakota Access Pipeline construction. Throughout this course we have been talking about the colonizer story. Colonizers take over land they believe will be used better under their control. To indigenous communities, land is sacred and the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline is an invasion,…[Read more]

This photos is of a 9 year old girl holding up a sign that reads “I have been poisoned by policy.” I decided to share this image because innocent kids are being affected by the Flint Michigan Water Crisis and more citizens are becoming aware of how it go this bad. It saddens me that the people of Flint are seen are devalued and have been fighting…[Read more]

Before Brown v. Board there was a case in California, Mendez v. Westminster, attempting to end segregation in schools. This case however focused on Latinos. The plaintiffs argued that their schools were under resourced compared to the white schools. The defendants argued that Mexicans lacked hygiene and carried diseases. Segregation is no longer…[Read more]

This photo is of a sign banning colored people from a theater in Tennessee. According to the Massey and Denton article along with our conversations in class, people often stopped supporting businesses that catered to African-Americans in order to keep the color line in their neighborhood. Restrictive covenants not only barred African-Americans…[Read more]

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>This photo is a screen shot from a Buzzfeed video that was recently uploaded and reminded me of what we discussed this week in class. This video is an interview with a 17 year old girl from South Los Angeles. She lived in affordable housing near the AllenCo oil drill site. She mentions as a child she’d experience b…[Read more]