All posts tagged "Michael Brown"
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New Interdisciplinary Resource, Black Lives Matter, Introduces 6-12th Graders to Antiblack Violence in U.S. Law and Society
By M. Shadee Malaklou When Ferguson police draped a white sheet over Michael Brown’s dead body, they forgot to cover his feet. For four hours,...
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Poetry by Fabienne Josaphat and Laila Malik
POLITICAL SILENCE For Michael Brown You tell me to keep quiet as we walk past the block where black boys are seated with...
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Victimwashing: Guns, Violence, and the Politics of Whose Lives Matter
By Julie Moreau In February, the New York Times published an article on legislative initiatives to arm college students in an alleged attempt to reduce...
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Personal is Political: Dismantling Racism and White Supremacy Must Come from Within
Too often when the rubber hits the road with anti-racist white people being held accountable by Black/Latin@/Asian/Indigenous/Arab peoples for their OWN acts of covert and...
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Top Yoga Studios Unite to Racially Profile Black “Yoga Thief”
By Sabrina Strings His picture was not to go unnoticed. It was planned that way. Flyers showing his face were posted prominently; one was under...
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Global Blackness
The following remarks were read at the Black Life Matters conference in Tucson, Arizona, on January 15, 2015. Good morning, everyone. I’m sorry I couldn’t...
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White People for Black Lives
By Zillah Eisenstein Revolutionary imagination is the most dangerous and therefore meaningful thing any of us have to offer. So I am writing in support...
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On Toni Cade Bambara and the Darren Wilson Jury Decision
We are explicitly clear that our commitment to honoring Toni Cade Bambara is just what we need now and every other heinous time when Black...
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#FergusonOctober: Francesca Griffin–A Black Woman and the Police State
By Ahmad Greene-Hayes “we who believe in freedom cannot rest” I was in St. Louis, Missouri recently for #FergusonOctober, a call “to build momentum for...
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“Hands Up! Don’t Shoot!”: Gesture, Choreography, and Protest in Ferguson
The bodily act of the hands up don’t shoot protests takes those same bodies that are surveilled, disciplined, controlled, and killed and infuses them with...
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On Ferguson, the Fragility of Black Boys, and Feminist Futures
By Aliyyah. I. Abdur-Rahman Recently over dinner, my dear friend Sandy Alexandre, Associate Professor of Literature at MIT, and I were talking about both Michael...
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#FergusonFridays: White Anti-Racism, Social Media, and the Problem of Self-Serving Allying
Since Michael Brown’s murder, the Internet has been abuzz with content focusing on what white people could and should do to counter racism. Others have...
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“I Am Because We Are: Ferguson, Family & Freedom” #FergusonFridays
“Where one is oppressed, none are free.” So said several of the signs I saw in Ferguson, Missouri, nearly 3-weeks ago today. My trip to...
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Back Up, Back Off, and Listen
By Aaminah Shakur In the wake of a very public war in Ferguson, Missouri, following the murder by police of Michael Brown, the white power...
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#FergusonFridays: If it wasn’t for the women…[i]
The reality is that the women and girls are the fabric of the community and hold all together. The women usually think and work for...
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Lessons From Ferguson
By Tamura Lomax, Stephanie Troutman, and Heather Laine Talley One week ago, we traveled to Ferguson, Missouri, a place that has drawn the attention of...
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Let Our Ears Tingle with Truth
By Keri Day Victor Hugo powerfully stated, “The guilty one is not he who commits the sin in the dark, but he who causes the...
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The Price of Blackness: From Ferguson to Bed-Stuy
The unsettling image of the lifeless body of 18-year old Mike Brown, the unarmed teen shot six times by Officer Darren Wilson, which laid prostrate before...
