Eleven years ago, I promised my family that I would share my story of a beautiful community known as New Hope Ministries of Busia, Uganda. Here is a glimpse into that story. It has galvanized so much personal relatability and solidarity with young Ugandans facing the current dictatorship in Uganda.
Read MoreWhen I was in high school, while at the library exploring resources about Black revolutionaries, I stumbled upon a book called “The Assassination of Fred Hampton” by Jeffery Haas.
The book recounts the murder of the Illinois Black Panther Chairman implemented by the FBI and Chicago police. I checked out the book and wasn’t able to put it down until I finished it. As I read, I felt emotions that I didn’t know I could experience from a book. I grieved the death of a man whose legacy nobody had bothered to teach me, and I am a changed person for learning his legacy.
I was at my first real job out of undergrad and at my first real review with my first real manager when I realized what initiative actually was.
My supervisor was surprised at the number of ideas I suddenly had because, as she noted, “everyone else” was overloading her inbox. My first response to this was what seemed to be obvious - she had never asked me for my ideas.
Read MoreThis year, with the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and widespread protests across the country over the summer, many Americans were suddenly faced with the idea of a policy they had never stopped to think about—defunding the police.
Read MoreHip-hop sets the tone for a lot of things in the Black community. More than a music genre, Hip Hop is also a lifestyle and has been a prominent political platform over the past few decades. For 30 years, Rock the Votehas been an excellent example of hip hop's power to educate and guide young voters in the Black community to exercise their vote.
Read MoreI joined Clubhouse over the summer, at the behest of a good and dear Black woman friend of mine, Maryam Ajayi. At the time I had already heard rumblings about the app in hushed tones across varying in-crowds but was never really sure what it was or who it was for. I knew it was exclusive and that there was a strong buzz about the invite-only approach…
Clubhouse is like Twitter but with the volume all the way up…
Read MoreWhen Madam Vice President-elect Kamala Harris stated that Black women are the backbone of democracy during her victory speech she was both confirming and affirming generations of Black women organizers. She then followed that sentiment up with a tweet.
Read MoreWe are walking around this babysitter character’s house, kids everywhere. May as well call it daycare, from the scene of it — might even call it a children’s detention center.
Of course, feds called it a foster home.
