All posts by Sikivu Hutchinson
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Two Years after Sandra Bland, Justice for Wakiesha Wilson
By Sikivu Hutchinson In July 2015, African American activist Sandra Bland died in police custody after challenging a white officer who stopped her for an...
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Moonlight, Black Boy and Teachable Moments
The boys walk through the school quad playing the dozens, verbally slamming another boy in absentia for being a weak “f—g” who can’t be trusted. ...
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TFW’s Sikivu Hutchinson debuts Jonestown film “White Nights, Black Paradise”
On November 18, 1978, more than 900 people died in a mass suicide/murder at the Peoples Temple Settlement in Jonestown, Guyana. Based on the acclaimed novel...
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The Coiled Spring First Grader Deep Inside: Sexual Violence and Restorative Justice
The discrediting of black girls’ experiences starts in preschool and kindergarten, where they are taught to endlessly check, police and second guess themselves. It’s symbolized...
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#FreeJasmine Abdullah Richards: Political Prisoner, Freedom Fighter
In 1900, human rights activist Ida B. Wells said, “Our nation’s national crime is lynching.” Wells fought her entire life to stop the atrocity...
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Woke Feminist Men: Engaging Black Men and Boys on Sexual Violence Activism
In American classrooms, where black children are never granted the luxury of being thinkers, brainy dreamers and nerdy eccentrics, invulnerability becomes their default mode and...
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White Nights, Black Paradise new novel on Jonestown by TFW’s Sikivu Hutchinson
On November 18, 1978, over 900 members of the Peoples Temple, a Black multiracial church, died in a Guyana jungle settlement named after the church’s...
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Black Girls and the Police State Menace
Whenever there’s a black girl on a school campus wielding a dangerous weapon like a cell phone, white macho can always be counted on to...
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Straight Outta Rape Culture
When N.W.A.’s mega-hyped biopic Straight Outta Compton opens this Friday, the brutalized bodies of black women will be lost in the predictable stampede of media accolades. ...
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Police Criminals and the Brutalization of Black Girls
In Alice Walker’s short story “The Flowers,” a little girl happens upon the decomposing body of a lynching victim while she is out picking flowers. ...
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Feminists We Love: Tamara Winfrey Harris
Tamara Winfrey Harris is a writer who specializes in the intersection of race and gender with current events, politics and pop culture. Her work has...
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Thugs R’ Us
“Thugs”—that was virtually the first word the world heard out of Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s pedigreed mouth during her press conference last week on the...
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Marco Rubio’s Flat Earth Minstrelsy
Ever since misbegotten Republican retread Alan Keyes burst onto the scene as the anti-Obama in 2008 it seems as if every presidential race demands at...
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Policing Our Girls, Taming ‘Topsy’
“Let them haul the little monster out of school and into jail”. These were the words of a commenter on CNN.com’s site responding to...
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Dissing DuVernay and the Lessons of Selma
Every child in the U.S. should be required to see Selma for at least two reasons. First, Ava DuVernay’s powerhouse film captures the political complexities...
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How We’re Failing Black Girls
“I don’t want to be considered African American,” one of my tenth grade Women’s Leadership Project students said, shaking her intelligent head distastefully. Another girl...
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Where are the White Feminists? MIA on Racist Misogynist Police Violence
The Oklahoma NAACP recently called on the Department of Justice to investigate accused rapist and Oklahoma City Police officer Daniel Holtzclaw for federal hate crime...
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Burying Our Babies: Letter from Los Angeles to Ferguson
In South Los Angeles’s Crenshaw District, there are three funeral homes within a one mile radius of each other. On bright sunny days, young people...
