By Kymani Hughes On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward and forever free.” However, the story of freedom did not start, and certainly did not end with him. Since the beginning of enslavement, enslaved Black…
By Khimmoy Hudson and Ajmaanie Andre From Our May/June 2020 Issue George Floyd was a brother, a son and a victim of police brutality. He took his final breath on Monday, May 25, 2020. And the world watched. For the nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds, Officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck, and…
By Jaylyn Gonzalez Death, protests, police violence, fires, an election year, and a once-in-a-century pandemic have dropped the country into a nightmare in the year 2020—feeding into a never-ending crisis, especially for the American people. Some may think that the traumatic events that occurred in 2020 were similar to those that marked the years of…
By Khimmoy Hudson On March 13th, after midnight hours, Louisville police arrived at 3003 Springfield Drive, Apt. 4 on an attempted drug raid. No drugs were ever found. Still, the events that unfolded would lead to the tragic death of 26-year old Black woman, Breonna Taylor. She had been a medical worker — an EMT…
By Samantha Jimenez President Trump’s most recent slew of controversial takes that he wishes to implement is his desire to change our education as we know it. This announcement came in the middle of the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement, which has often been accompanied by people criticizing the nation as a whole and denying…
By Michelle Mairena From our August issue On the night of February 26, 2012, Sybrina Fulton’s world was shaken and shattered. Her 17-year-old son, Trayvon Martin, was fatally shot as he returned to his father’s residence from a quick 7-Eleven trip in Sanford, Florida. Trayvon was unarmed, carrying nothing with him but a bag of…
By Kymani Hughes Since the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis by a white cop, and the resonating adversary of bigotry uprisings around the globe, the idea of reparations has gotten force in national discussions, paving way for new open interests and intrigue. Among Black individuals and their progenitors, reparations for servitude have been on…
By Rhobie Toussaint Imagine seeing someone of your demographic being murdered by a police officer: one that should have been a civil servant of the people, and ultimately, the embodiment of law and order. Political commentaries, memes across social media, class discussions, and even revolutionary black lives matter protests unleash in unison, taking the media…
By Tyler Banks In the wake of Black Lives Matter protests, a pandemic, and presidential rallies, the country has been forced to make changes; namely, in the school district of Miami-Dade County, plans are already being put to play as a result of the issues that the nation is currently facing. Change is inevitable. With…
By Malique Lewis When two black men entered a Starbucks to wait for a friend to conduct a business meeting, the store’s manager said that they couldn’t wait in the vicinity because they didn’t purchase anything. The manager then proceeded to dial the police, and the two men were arrested, taken to a police station,…