A look at performative activism and how to avoid the brands that practice it. By Stacey Coles This is a portion of an article that originally appeared in Sesi’s Winter 2020 issue. Subscribe here to stay up on our current editions. It was only a short time ago that #BlackLivesMatter was the hottest wave, and […]
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“We’re filing a lawsuit here in Bridgeport to compel them to process this case, to protect this family, and to give them the equal rights they deserve under the Connecticut Constitution.” – Darnell Crosland, the family lawyer, to News 12 Connecticut By Andréa Butler In the early morning hours of December 12, 2021, 23-year-old Lauren […]
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By Andréa Butler On April 20, 2021, former police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted on all counts for murdering George Floyd last summer. The world had finally witnessed the arc of the moral universe slightly bend toward justice. But the deep sighs of relief were soon met with a new trauma when word broke, just […]
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By Ava Marshall George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Ahmaud Arbery. Sean Reed. Atatiana Jefferson. The names of just a small few of us killed at the hands of police. A few of the hundreds that have lost their lives to a racist system, more than a few of whom still have no justice. As protests occur […]
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This article originally appeared in Sesi’s Spring 2015 issue. Subscribe here to stay up on our current editions. In the eight months since Ferguson, a grand jury chose not to indict the police officer who killed the unarmed teen, and the Department of Justice decided not to file civil rights charges, either. This may have […]
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#BlackLivesMatter, prison reform, environmentalism, women’s rights –– the list could go on and on. There’s a load of issues in the world and plenty of reasons you may feel the urge to join the fight for change. And while it’s no cap that activism can be rewarding, it can also have a negative impact on the mental health of some of its strongest warriors. And there are receipts to prove it.
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By Andréa Butler When we first saw “Jordan Edwards” trending on our TL yesterday, we were expecting to click and discover yet another example of injustice in a long string of cops getting away with murdering unarmed Black people. But this time, our gasps, shouts, and tears were celebratory, rather than sorrowful because 38-year-old Roy […]
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Last night, Justine Skye delivered an unapologetically woke rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner for the Nets’ opening game at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Following several bars of vocal perfection, Justine wrapped her performance by taking a knee as she sang the final word “brave” — joining a host of players, fans, and […]
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Racially motivated murders of Black people is a legacy that’s been passed down for decades in this country. And while there were no hashtags for Jesse Washington (a 17-year-old Black farmhand lynched by a mob of 10,000 white people in Texas in 1916), Anthony Crawford (a Black landowner lynched the same year in South Carolina), […]
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“The only way we save our communities and our struggle for freedom is to fight this violence with the raised clenched Black fist of resistance.” -BLM L.A. We already know the National Rifle Association (NRA) doesn’t care about Black lives — they’ve made that abundantly clear with their lack of response to Philando Castile’s murder […]
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