Back in the day, before starting my MA and entering into the equal parts inspiring, equal parts depressing phase of my life known as a PhD, I used to write for fun. I worked as an editor for an online magazine about issues important to black women around the world, then as a special correspondent for a site where I…

As I promised in the previous article, here is the English translation of the interview I conducted with Mayara, Vitória, and Mona Lisa, three participants in the São Paulo Marcha Por Todas Elas (march for all women and girls) on June 1, 2016.

On Wednesday night, I attended the Marcha Por Todas Elas (March for All Women & Girls) here in São Paulo (city), Brazil. As I discussed in the article I posted on Saturday, this march, among others throughout the nation that happened in cities like Rio, Belo Horizonte, Salvador, Recife, and many others, emerged not…

A few nights ago in Rio, over thirty men allegedly gang raped a teenage girl. The attack took place in a neighborhood called Morro de Barão. One of the men filmed the rape and posted the video on Twitter. His horrific share garnered over 500 “likes.” Meanwhile, others posted images making jokes of the rape and smiling…

This is what the twilight zone looks like:

In today’s ridiculous *intersectional feminism feels like a pipe dream* news, I wanted to leave this excellent storify by Lizz Brown regarding Donna Edwards and her race in Maryland for the Senate seat to replace longtime Democratic Senator Barbara Mikulski:

I am not one for shameless self-promotion, but I know there are some folks here who are based in NYC or close-by and thought I’d put the word out. I will be speaking at a panel on contemporary black activism in Latin America called “Black Lives Matter in Latin America: Race, Space & Consciousness” on Monday, April…

I’ll admit I am surprised I didn’t see anything here about what happened the other day in the Bill Clinton vs. black protesters in Philadelphia spat. Here is the complete footage for context (a little over 11 minutes, not the 30 seconds they keep playing on tv):

Democracy Now featured a great discussion with Angela Davis this morning. I am posting all three parts here and will let Davis’s awesomeness speak for itself.

In a recent piece “Trade & State Terror” regarding threats to labor activists in Honduras and Colombia, I included a few lines at the bottom about Egypt. In comparison to the situation in Latin America, I argued:

On Monday, the U.S. presidential candidates gave their speeches for AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a group that lobbies on behalf of pro-Israeli government interests. If you are not Israeli, Palestinian, or living/have family somewhere in the Middle East, you might say, “And? What does that have…

Yesterday, after hearing the speeches at AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee), I wrote the following on facebook:

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Some of you may already know about the coup in Honduras, but many others in the U.S. don’t. Alarming new information coming out of the country shows that abuse, rape, and murder under the new regime that the U.S. State Department backed and its brutal paramilitary forces that our military trained are at an all-time…

If you have been watching MSNBC in recent months, you may have noticed that the left-leaning sentiments of the network were starting to dim. While many of its famous commentators remained, others were “let go” (like Ed Schutlz), lost their shows (Joy Reid, Steve Kornacki, Alex Wagner), and/or were shifted around to…

On Wednesday night, Ashley Williams and a friend (whose name has not been disclosed) attended a $500 a head Clinton campaign fundraiser in South Carolina. Once face to face with Clinton, Williams unveiled a sign that read, “We have to bring them to heel.” The rest was history.

I am too disgusted right now to give this a proper write-up, so here’s a link and some words someone else said: