By Kristian Davis Bailey Last December, I visited Brazil for the first time to attend the Transregional Summit: The Arab Spring Meets Black Lives Matter conference at the Federal Fluminense University  (UFF) outside Rio de Janeiro. It was designed to put Black Lives Matter in conversation with Arab activists from Egypt and Palestine, and social […]
By Sherronda Brown *This essay includes spoilers and discussion of sexual violence. At some point in the midst of filming The Beguiled on the same plantation where BeyoncĂ©’s Lemonade was filmed, Kirsten Dunst and Elle Fanning attempted to pay homage to the singer through a gesture they no doubt assumed would garner celebration and envy […]
This article was originally published at Water Cooler Convos. âI love you. Mommy loves you, Charlotte.â I watched a character named âOfwarrenâ speak those words to a rosey-cheeked baby before jumping from a bridge. She was attempting to end her own life. Ofwarren survived the plunge into the cold waters below. Yet, the image of […]
LeDajrick Cox was celebrating his graduation with friends when his life was cut short. The 18-year-old was only a few hours removed from his Dallasâ Carter High School graduation ceremony on the night he was shot dead.Â
Over the past couple of weeks, New Orleans has been at the heart of the debate of free expression vs. “erasing history.” For decades, the city has been home to multiple monuments to the pro-slavery Confederacy. Eventually, city council voted to remove them. This decision came with plenty of controversy from Confederacy sympathizers and those […]
Brenda Bostick, 59, has died after being found unconscious in Chelsea last week. The New York Post reports that her death is being investigated as a homicide as she was found with a head wound.Â
Edward Crawford, the man featured in an iconic photo taken during the Ferguson protests, has been found dead in his car. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports his cause of death is believed to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
For most of my schooling, I was treated as somewhat of a golden child. As an advanced placement student in a majority Black district, where most of the other Black kids werenât surpassing their white peers scholastically like I was, the fact that I seemed destined to follow in the footsteps of my ivy-league older […]
Cedric Anderson was granted access to North Park Elementary School in San Bernardino, California because he said he had something to give his wife, Karen Elaine Smith. Unfortunately, once Anderson reached the classroom where Smith was teaching, he reached for a .357 Magnum and opened fire, killing Smith and injuring two of her students. Anderson then took […]
Keke Collier, a 24-year-old black, transgender woman, was shot and killed in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood, according to Mic. After being misgendered by local media, Collier’s identity was later confirmed by friends, such as Shasha Lauren.Â
Chad Robertson, 25, died in a Chicago hospital a week after being shot in the back while fleeing from a pair of Amtrak police officers outside of Union Station. His death was ruled a homicide and a result of a gunshot wound to the back, according to The Chicago Sun-Times.Â
JoJo Striker, 23, was found murdered in Toldeo, Ohio last Wednesday. The black transgender woman is the third trans murder victim on record in 2017, all three of which have been people or color, according to Fusion.
