Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation released the following statement on the extra-judicial execution of Patrick Lyoya by an unidentified Grand Rapids police officer. The Foundation shared the statement below following the release of video this week…
We turn our conversation to sacred and luminous practices of creativity and imagination in the healing journeys of Black people. Our healers examine practices of collective imagination, arts of healing, and the multiple ways to access Spirit and wholeness through the individual and collective body…
Black Lives Matter today released a statement blasting President Joe Biden’s budget, which increased funding for policing to $30 billion. The budget follows increases in police funding across the country while police killings are on the rise in the United States. Black Lives Matter released the following statement in response…
We turn our conversation to sacred and luminous practices of creativity and imagination in the healing journeys of Black people. Our healers examine practices of collective imagination, arts of healing, and the multiple ways to access Spirit and wholeness through the individual and collective body…
There’s a looong list of things that President Biden neglected to mention in his State of the Union last week. We’re about to really talk about the President and his State of the Union. Let’s start with the things he didn’t mention…
Two years ago, President Biden made a campaign promise to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. On Friday, he fulfilled the promise by naming Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee…
Andrew Joseph III was a 14-year-old Black teen attending “Student Day” at the Florida State Fair in Tampa back in 2014. After sheriff deputies racially targeted, harassed, physically searched, and unjustly removed Andrew from the fair, making no attempt to contact the middle-schooler’s parents, Andrew was dropped off on the side of a busy interstate 2 miles from the fair…
Ten years ago, our world changed forever. What started as a zero-tolerance school discipline policy — displacing yet another Black student from the classroom — quickly rendered 17-year-old Trayvon Martin vulnerable to being racially profiled, surveilled, and killed by a self-appointed neighborhood watch captain turned vigilante…
This month marks the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade — the landmark Supreme Court decision which guaranteed the right to choose and ensured the reproductive rights of women are protected by law. But here’s the thing: The Roe decision was never intended to be the ceiling, because it’s the floor. We shouldn’t be rolling back on abortion rights, but progressing forward…
We are more than magic. We are the sacred mamas, builders, teachers, and lovers of this world. We are the first to walk the earth and the vessel through which all of humanity was born. The Creator speaks and works through us as we constantly make ways out of no way…