OPINION | The playground is the battleground
We’re giving over the health, safety and the sanctity of public education to those who only have their own power interests at heart.
We’re giving over the health, safety and the sanctity of public education to those who only have their own power interests at heart.
I write a lot about the ongoing injuries to Black people to connect the dots of history to this present moment. But in life I lean heavily into joy.
Opinion writer Nikesha Elise Williams reflects on an encounter with a police officer in Murray Hill Friday night.
What’s happening in Brentwood is an extension of the long history of redlining that cut off Black and Brown communities from investment.
Now that it has happened to my son, so much earlier than when it first happened to me, I am only sad.
The only opinion I have and the only solution I support is cease fire.
In the images of Woods and Deegan, the degradation of one, and the praise of another, is how much further we have to go toward equity.
Throwing money at a problem is easy. What is not is remaining committed to creating equitable communities for all people months or years after tragedy has happened.
Though it it comes as an affront to the immoral imbalance of white supremacy, disenfranchisement and early death be damned.
I didn’t want to write this, but here I am using my words to process a pain that runs too deep in my bones, my bloodline, for me to ignore.
Will we look back and say we did our best on an individual level to fight climate change?
The prevailing narrative of Florida’s new social studies standards, and in our country writ large, is that Black Americans are not “real” Americans.
We cannot police ourselves out of crime. The JSO budget has been at or above half-a-billion dollars for years, and the crime numbers remain high.
I criticize this bold new city of the South consistently, but I’m not above applauding when ovation is due. And, Jacksonville, ovation is due.
Recent legislative measures target the very existence of marginalized groups.
Florida Republicans are stripping people of safety, bodily autonomy and dignity while masquerading as choice.
College DEI programs provide safe space and solace for those of us looking for community in a dominant culture that’s hostile to difference.
The real change lies in who’s elected to the down ballot races. We have 19 seats on our City Council, and only four incumbents are running unopposed or against a write-in candidate, guaranteeing their return to the Council.
What came home from school was a list of people, places, or things the students could portray. Out of two dozen options, only four were Black people.
The hashtags that now date back a decade, and centuries of crimes against humanity, are the reason A.P. African American Studies is necessary.
The U.S. workforce suffers from the unwillingness of corporations to pay workers a wage that signifies value, worth, dignity and respect.
Banning books eliminates an opportunity for students to expand beyond their own surroundings and worldview.
“Take ‘Em Down!” is an ineffectual narrative strategy to effect change. Is it a demand of adamance? Absolutely. A passionate plea for empathy? Of course. A spirited rallying cry, pithy enough for posters and T-shirts, and to fit into the mouths of young protesters who chant the phrase while elder dissenters offer themselves to the law as a martyr for
As a child I would sometimes get in trouble in school, and then again at home, for trying to express my point of view when I disagreed with something my teachers or parents did or said. To my insistent protestations I was rebuffed with standard parenting quips: “Stay in a child’s place” or “Stay out of grown folks’ business.” At