All posts tagged "Trayvon Martin"
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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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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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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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The Weight in Being Well: The Salt Eaters and the Genius of Toni Cade Bambara
Joel Diaz and Steven G. Fullwood: Toni Morrison once said of Bambara is that she writes black. To me, she meant black people, black bodies,...
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Hands Up, Don’t Shoot: Black Self-Defense in the Wake of Ferguson
By Luam Kidane and Hakima Abbas After nearly three months of deliberation the grand jury decision on whether to indict the police officer who murdered...
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Better Off Dead: Black Women Speak to the United Nations CERD Committee
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Farah Tanis With each of our dead, we mourn the loss of a piece of ourselves and with each of our raped...
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The Violence, Anti-Blackness, and Black Life Matters Forum: An Introduction
The recent shooting and murder of 18-year old Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, galvanized a local movement for justice on behalf...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: On Ferguson’s Protest and Its Occupation
By Vanessa Lynn Lovelace On Saturday, August 9, 2014 at around noon, eighteen-year-old Michael Brown was gunned down by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer. Eyewitnesses...
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Editorial: Michael Brown and Anti-Black Violence
A young black man was killed this weekend. He was shot multiple times by police while walking to his grandmother’s house. He was left to...
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Meditations on Being Right
By Lyndsey Godwin This is a sermon that was given on February 12, 2013 at the weekly chapel service held at Vanderbilt Divinity School, an...
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Using the Erotic to do Our Work
There are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise. The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in...
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Personal is Political: Audre Speaks: Lordean Lessons for a White Man
By Chris Rupertus The very first thing I say to my seniors on the very first day of the semester is this: “I have a...
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For Lucia Mcbath, Sybrina Fulton and All Other Black Mothers Who’ve Considered Righteous Rage When Black Respectability Politics Ain’t Enough
In “What is this “black” in black popular culture? (Rethinking Race),” the late, great cultural theorist Stuart Hall, poignantly asks, “What sort of moment is...
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Necessary Memories: Trayvon Martin’s Birthday and George Zimmerman’s Celebrity Boxing Match
Sometimes there are things you just can’t forget. Today would have been his birthday. Today, we know that our criminal justice and legal systems, our...
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Protecting What’s White: A New Look at Stand Your Ground Laws
By Sabrina Strings I ran into a normally nocturnal neighbor early one morning. She was buzzing about with an uncharacteristic alacrity. “Morning,” I muttered. “Good...
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Trayvon Triptych (a poem)
By Quincy Scott Jones I. George Zimmerman Presses the Mute Button They say I was angry The same country that promotes drunks and pot...
