I am sharing the song “We the People….” by A Tribe Called Quest, from their final album We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service (2016). Watch the full video here.
As the title alludes to the opening line of the Constitution, so too does the opening line of the song; it counters the political rhetoric of democracy-for-all and bridges the…[Read more]

I apologize in advance for this offensive image. Please read on before viewing.

On Friday, an Islamaphobic poster targeting Minnesota Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar was displayed within the West Virginia statehouse by a vendor during a Republican-sponsored public gathering. The poster has a photograph of Representative Omar underneath a…[Read more]

*I’m sorry if this is posted multiple times, it says I have submitted but it doesn’t show up in the thread for me!!

In 1956, the National Parks Service rolled out “Mission 66,” a ten year program that promised large expansion of the parks nationwide to facilitate exponential tourism growth by the NPS 50th Anniversary in 1966. Despite all the cla…[Read more]

In 1956, the National Parks Service rolled out “Mission 66,” a ten year program that promised large expansion of the parks nationwide to facilitate exponential tourism growth by the NPS 50th Anniversary in 1966. Despite all the claims of land preservation, Mission 66 initiatives came at the expense of large swaths of land in order to create all…[Read more]

This week, I chose a cartoon that represents the revolving door nature of incarceration. Programming (education, job training, etc.) suffers a general lack of funding, structural support, and restrictions on inmates for participation which lead to high rates of recidivism within the United States. An estimated 83% of parolees reoffend within 9…[Read more]

These photos are from the February 3rd, 1964 one-day New York City school boycott. The first photo (Frank Hurley/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images) shows students creating signs for the boycott that culminated in ~ 460,000 NYC students refusing to go to school in protest of subpar school conditions faced by Black and Latino students…[Read more]

This photo is of white children protesting school busing. School busing was a program implemented following desegregation, which would, in theory, allow a city to combat continued neighborhood racial segregation (and continual white flight to the suburbs) by transporting black children to schools that were outside of their neighborhoods, therefore…[Read more]

Although I lived much of my childhood in Pennsylvania, my mother is originally from Newport News, Virginia, and I lived there for 8 years myself; finishing out my senior year of high school and while stationed out of Norfolk when I was in the Navy.

So, this week, I wanted to find a story from my former home. While searching, I stumbled across a he…[Read more]

By now, I’m sure many of us have seen the story and disturbing images circulating following March for Life (an anti-abortion movement) in DC which coincided with The Indigenous Peoples March. High school age children (many from a Catholic school that was identified by shirts, hoodies, hats the children were wearing) began to gather around a group…[Read more]