#blacklivesmatter Archive
Teaching Moment: Police Brutality and Raising a Black Son By Zerline Hughes | July 8, 2016 I don’t recall ever feeling like this. Aimless. Angry. Depressed. Defeated. Tired. These feelings are synonymous with PTSD and mourning. It took me half …
I’m sick of death. I’m sick of becoming immune to knowing at least three trending topics for that day will include the loss of life. And more than anything I’m sick of blaming groups of people because our skin tones …
The Black Lives Matter Campaign has been in the media now for some time, and it’s surprising to see how polarizing this movement has been. Just the other day a news host asked why it wasn’t classified as a hate …
Every so often we need to pause, take a deep breath, and ask ourselves: what am I trying to do? Sometimes we get so obsessed with our efforts to bring about change we lose sight on the big picture. The …
The community has had enough. The Southern Coalition for Social Justice and Durham FADE (Fostering Alternative Drug Enforcement) partnered with community organizations to present five recommendations from the Human Relations Commission for the Durham Police Department to decrease discriminatory practices. Representatives …
