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8M ago
‘I got an email being called the N-word just last week as a matter of fact for some of our coverage. I think at the end of the day what we can do is just truly speak the truth.’ -Marcus Harrison Green ..read more
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9M ago
‘All anybody wanted to talk about was the pandemic, which I resisted for about a week, and then I realized we all need to talk about the pandemic. It's not even like it was the elephant in the room. It's like it was the room. It was unavoidable ..read more
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9M ago
‘It took her some time to find her voice, but when she did she said three careful words, it’s so beautiful ..read more
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9M ago
‘In the equation of institutional sexual abuse, the constant is the abuser. There's always going to be a certain percentage of child sex abusers in the population ..read more
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10M ago
‘If black children belong to us, and we need not be mothers or fathers or even black for black children to belong to us, a part of us is always vigilant, and always exhausted ..read more
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10M ago
‘When I talk about public safety, when I talk about I need more officers, I always lead with, but not in a racialized or militarized fashion ..read more
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10M ago
One poet asks, ‘Will you not open this door for me? My hand is exhausted from knocking at your door ..read more
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10M ago
‘It’s not going to happen in my lifetime. We are working to a future that we will not live to see. That’s what this work is about, and the healing is knowing that we’re doing it together ..read more
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10M ago
'This, I argue, is the beginning of the Age of Exploration, the Age of Discovery, and thereby, the start of the modern world ..read more
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10M ago
‘It's a different kind of approach and different kind of exchange that I know that we can do because I've seen it, and it's growing. It begins with a different definition of listening. Listening is about showing people they matter ..read more