Keiosha Felix was only 15 years old when she vanished from Duson, Louisiana on April 30, 2012. She was not just a missing teen. She was also a young mother. Her life matters, especially for her child, because any attempt to casually suggest that Keiosha simply “left” collapses under the weight of one brutal fact. […]
It was exactly 58 years ago today. I was only 2 years old, in my mother’s arms as she held me near the third-floor window of her apartment in the 2200 block of Brookfield Avenue in West Baltimore. Mom and Dad were only 22-years-old. Outside, the city was in chaos. I remember people coming down […]
Relisha Rudd should be 20 years old today. She should be living her life, chasing her future, laughing, growing, and becoming the young woman she was never given the chance to be. Instead, more than 12 years after she vanished from a community shelter in Washington, D.C., Relisha is still missing, her case is still […]
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 […]
Could it be true? Could the prayers of one man’s family finally be answered? Is it even possible after over 25 years that relief in the form of solicited help from law students might be the culmination of an ugly story that was born out of lies, deception, and corruption from police and prosecutors who […]
The saga of a music industry mogul has enveloped all of social media, and has been exacerbated by brash criticisms characterizing him as a complete monster who kidnapped people, raped men and women alike, and even sexually assaulted children to name a few charges levied against him. These horrific allegations are only overshadowed by the […]
