Black lives matter

Keep checking this page through 11:59 p.m. on Saturday for photos and Tweets from #BLM247. Why? As the people from  Black Lives Matter said in…

I’m no longer certain what’s more taxing: Having to write about yet another unarmed Black person experiencing excessive, brutal force from law enforcement, or having…

Because it is a social construct, race can often be a complicated matter. However, racism – notably, as it works in America – is a…

The story: all too familiar. The aftermath: taking it to the streets. Late Friday evening, protests erupted in Madison, Wisconsin after an unarmed black teen…

The U.S. Department of Justice is calling the police department in Ferguson, Missouri for their activities that smacked of racial bias. Click the media player…

Three years after the killing of Trayvon Martin, and subsequent killings of unarmed Black men sparked a national reaction movement in the form of #BlackLivesMatter, Dartmouth College is now…

We have much to remember and be thankful for during Black History Month, but there’s also much to mourn. Today would’ve been Trayvon Martin‘s 20th birthday.…

  African-American communities throughout the country have long been plagued by police brutality. The deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Ezell Ford (pictured) last…

For a few weeks now, I and presumably other writers like me, have been asked to brace ourselves for this moment and to have our…