For my weekly share this week I wanted to use the song VRY BLK by Jamila Woods which is a song about modern issues that Black folks are facing at this time. I wanted to use the first verse of this line because it speaks about our Blackness and the beauty in it but also the different trials and tribulations that we face.  This song brings emphasis…[Read more]

For this weeks photo share I wanted to touch on something I was saying when we were in class this week. I often times get treated different in the Black community because I am someone with lighter skin and I am usually seen as someone who isn’t Black enough. Although, I know that I am fully Black and that is how I identify, some people don’t know…[Read more]

For my photo, I chose a picture that was taken up in Julian, San Diego. I chose this picture because my family and I have never gone to national parks or have done any camping of that sorts. I chose this ictus because the first time I experienced going to a cabin in the woods was when I got to college and had to go for a job retreat. This picture…[Read more]

The picture I chose to use is a group of diverse 3rd graders by Ryan Mcvay. I chose this photo for representation of how I was reading an article when I was a lot younger and the article said that prisons start making beds for people after their third grade year. Basically, they take data from third graders reading skills and determine how many…[Read more]

Today, I wanted to do my weekly photo share on the Los Angeles Unified School District, and them addressing the segregation issues that happen within the Los Angeles county schools. I read and got my information from the article, “LA’s Schools Are Segregated. LAUSD Says There’s Only So Much They Can Do”, by Kyle Stokes and the picture I am using…[Read more]

I wanted to do my weekly photo share on Louis Farrakhan, who is a member of the Nation of Islam. In my first year of college I went to a conference called the Afrikan Black Coalition conference where all Black students come from all the UC’s and CSU’s in California, it is a place to celebrate Blackness in its entirety and in every intersection…[Read more]

For this weeks photo share I wanted to share Marian Wright Edelman and also reflect upon my experience this summer working with the children defense fund. I worked with the childrens defense fund over the summer which was made in the the height of the civil rights movement. This picture is relevant today because she is the founder and director of…[Read more]