Today in No-Shit-Sherlock, records show that the Dept. of Homeland Security has been surveilling Black Lives Matter activists since Ferguson. (Hi, Jeh Johnson! Hope you got me on my good side!)
But of course, they’ve been surveilling us since we...
Last night, CNN anchor Don Lemon — in his latest anti-Black stunt — justified the racist and violent actions of Sr. Deputy Ben Fields, the officer seen on camera assaulting a Black female-bodied student at Spring Valley High School...
Displaced: to force someone to leave their home, typically because of war, persecution, or natural disasters.
This war being waged on black bodies is resulting in our persecution, and there is nothing natural about this disaster. It is methodological, institutionalized...
I’m not writing about Rachel Dolezal. There’s no need for her — and her lies, cultural theft, violence, and overall fuckery — to take up any more space.
But since we’re all so transfixed with Black women now, can we perhaps channel...
Respectability will not save us … No matter how much we wish it would.
So now that James Blake, a Harvard grad and former tennis superstar en route to the U.S. Open, was violently tackled to the ground by five...
Many people question the difference between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., but what do the differences really mean? What are their differing ideologies and do they have shared goals. We'll dive into these questions and more in...
To be pro-Black does not mean to be anti-white. To be pro-Black means to be anti-white supremacy.
I wrote these words in a piece about interracial dating some months ago. The piece argues that being pro-Black means to affirm Black...
By Sebastian Johnson
“Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.” Psalm 74:4
For months, the events have gathered, scattered ominously across the landscape like dark foreboding clouds, pregnant with the force of...
Confession: I have not watched — nor do I intend to watch — the video from McKinney, Texas. From what I gathered from my various social media feeds, the video shows a cop viciously pinning down a 14-year-old bikini-clad...
I had some serious writer’s block since I last published. Through a bout of depression, I wasn’t able to formulate or articulate my thoughts and emotions in a manner appropriate for the Blackosphere. When my Black Lives Matter Sisters...
