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#WeOutOrNah? The Internal Conflict of a Conscious Black Person Postelection
“Ohio. North Carolina. Florida. My God. This is really happening.” As last night’s results rolled in, I was hunkered down in a war room with colleagues. Together we watched our greatest fear, and that of millions of others around the country, be actualized in real time. My body stiffened as state by state, vote by…
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Dear Mike: Another Year Has Passed and We’re Still Fighting for You
I started my time at Advancement Project one year ago. My first big assignment came only three weeks after my first day: I was being sent to Ferguson, Mo. As the leader for our youth-criminalization work, I would manage the national media and communications efforts for the one-year commemoration of Mike Brown’s death. I hadn’t…
Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
