Book Review – The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration 10 Years Later
Photo Credit: The New Jim Crow, The New Press In the ten years since the seminal work on race in America in the 21st…
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Book Review – Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream by Blair Imani
Photo Credit: Caroline Leavitt @Leavittnovelist So often the history that is taught regarding black citizens is limited to a few solitary time periods or…
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The Giver: A Dystopian Classic
It is a common anecdote that the word “utopia” has a twofold meaning: “perfect place” and “no place”. In the definition itself, a utopia…
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Animal Farm: What Does It Teach Us?
Summertime is the perfect opportunity to finally get around to reading those classics you’d always heard about. I had never happened to read Animal Farm…
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Women’s March Los Angeles, 1.19.19
For the third year in a row, women and their allies across the country set aside time to join with friends and family to…
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Found Angels – A Poem by Natalie Patterson
There are people in every generation who are willing Willing to stand To step up To do the work We call you The fighters…
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Heartbreak in Northwest China, a Place I Called Home
The land I called home for many years is facing a dire situation. My husband and I taught English in Northwest China beginning in…
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s Final Public Address, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”
50 years ago today Dr. Martin Luther King was shot and killed on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. I was not taught enough…
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#JesusLivesInJail
In February, Lake Avenue Church in Pasadena, CA hosted a week-long event that explored a compassionate and informed understanding of the mass incarceration issue…
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March For Our Lives – Students Across the United States Speak Out Against Gun Violence and Call For Legislative Change
#Enough, #WhatIf and #NeverAgain On Valentine’s Day of 2018 at 2:20 PM on the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Nikolas Cruz, a…
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Wakanda Forever
#WAKANADAFOREVER is the hashtag the audience left the movie theaters with after seeing the new Marvel Studios blockbuster film Black Panther. Directed by Ryan…
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Oprah Winfrey’s Acceptance Speech at the 2018 Golden Globes – Stand Up!
This past January 7th, Oprah Winfrey received a special honor from the entertainment community called a Cecil B. DeMille award for lifetime achievement at…
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