June 2016: African American Mentions, News, and Highlights

In Native Son, Wright writes: “Goddammit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain’t. They do things and we can’t. It’s just like living in jail.” Vince Staples reminds us that the inner city still imprisons many. We should never forget that for some…

Black History 1: Art, Psychology, Law, and Sports

The African Blood Brotherhood for African Liberation and Redemption (ABB) was a Marxist communist and black nationalist organization that emerged in response to the violent race riots of the Red Summer of 1919. Founded in 1919 in Harlem by Cyril V. Briggs, a West Indian immigrant, the organization was structured as a secret fraternal society…

Social Invisibility: Can a Black Woman’s “hoeness” be Deleted? Stereotypes, Rumors, and Titles of Shame

“Black women emerged from slavery enshrined in the consciousness of white America as “mammy” and “bad black woman.” –  Cherly Gilkes According to a society that has condemned black women for her erotic….no!!!!…our “hoeness” can not be deleted.  It seems as though we forget how and why these labels against our women came from in…

Intimidation, Sexual Abuse, and Cover-up within a Florida Women’s Prison

We often forget that women are a part of the prison population, focusing on the abuse that happens to our man as stories of mass incarceration are displayed in books and the news. These women  tend to be abused while being silent by authority figures known as Correctional Officers. Some of the officers are given…

Recy Taylor: Silenced and Forgotten

I was told by a black man in one of my Facebook groups last month that the reason our black men didn’t riot or march for Sandra Bland’s murder was because to her one death there were several black men that died and that she wasn’t a priority as the men were. It saddened me….

The Invisibility of the Black American Woman

Update  01/21/2016: ‪#‎BREAKING‬: ‪#‎DanielHoltzclaw‬ will serve all 263 years consecutively @OKCFOX! http://okcfox.com/news/local/sentencing-slated-today-for-former-oklahoma-city-police-officer-daniel-holtzclaw   Update 01/21/2016:  This is Holtzclaw’s sentencing day.  I am anxious, nervous, and giddy all at the same time.  I am hopeful that this “man” will be rightfully sentenced and justice for the victims will prevail.  I will post what the outcome will be…