When Iran nationalized its oil in 1953, it committed the unforgivable sin of telling Western powers that its wealth belonged to its own people. That was never going to be tolerated by colonizers lusting to conquer Mideastern wealth. So in 1953, the United States and Great Britain helped crush Iran’s leadership within it’s sovereign and […]
Washington, D.C. is the capital of the United States, yet far too many children can go missing here without the kind of nonstop national alarm their disappearances should trigger. For Black children especially, the silence often feels even louder. Their faces do not always dominate the news cycle. Their names do not always trend. Their […]
Some family secrets do not stay buried because they are harmless. They stay buried because the truth is too disruptive to the story people have chosen to live with. I can’t image what was so horrible that our mother couldn’t tell us or face such truth in her life time. The sad reality is that […]
There is a dark truth at the heart of Western society. White fear has long been weaponized, and Blackness has long been treated as inherently suspicious. From that poisonous pairing came a culture where white lies are too often believed without question, while Black lives are too often placed on trial before any facts are […]
There comes a point when carefully chosen political language is no longer enough to hide what people can plainly see with their own eyes. What is happening to the Palestinian people, and what is now unfolding with Iran, does not look to me like morality. It does not look like justice. It does not look […]
