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Calling on Candidate Kamala Harris to Stand Unapologetically for Black Women and Girls

Like former president Barack Obama before her, the weight of Black expectations will be massive

Aug 17, 2024

Calling on Candidate Kamala Harris to Stand Unapologetically for Black Women and Girls

Aug 17, 2024

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Justice For Ma’Khia: Abolition Blooming Rebellious

She was slain the same afternoon Chauvin has led away from the courtroom in handcuffs

Apr 21, 2021

Apr 21, 2021

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MAGA’s Rape Culture Regime: Shutting Down Violent Misogyny

Just prior to Trump’s re-election, the misogynist mantra “Your body, my choice” started trending on social media and the Internet. It was a…

Feb 12

MAGA’s Rape Culture Regime: Shutting Down Violent Misogyny

Feb 12

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Fighting for the Futures of Black Youth in the LAUSD

Right-wing backlash imperils black student achievement plan

Nov 16, 2024

Fighting for the Futures of Black Youth in the LAUSD

Nov 16, 2024

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Vice President Harris’ Black Job and the Rainbow Cult of Toxic Masculinity

The painful truth is that Black communities, like the nation at large, have always been plagued by sexism, misogyny, and patriarchy

Nov 4, 2024

Vice President Harris’ Black Job and the Rainbow Cult of Toxic Masculinity

Nov 4, 2024

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Reclaiming Black Queer (Tran)cestors, Fighting K-12 Miseducation

Ask American adults across the political spectrum to name a U.S. Supreme Court case and the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision or the 1954 Brown…

Jun 13, 2024

Reclaiming Black Queer (Tran)cestors, Fighting K-12 Miseducation

Jun 13, 2024

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Our Communities are Still MIA on the Epidemic of Violence Against Black Women and Girls

“Black feminists often talk about their feelings of craziness before becoming conscious of the concepts of sexual politics, patriarchal…

Mar 29, 2024

Our Communities are Still MIA on the Epidemic of Violence Against Black Women and Girls

Mar 29, 2024

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Holding Space for Niani: Killer Cops, Domestic Violence and the War on Black Women

On December 4th, twenty seven year-old Niani Finlayson, a mother of two young daughters, was shot and killed by L.A. County Sheriff’s…

Jan 1, 2024

Holding Space for Niani: Killer Cops, Domestic Violence and the War on Black Women

Jan 1, 2024

Black Voters’ Dangerous Dance with Trump 2.0

Word to Black voters seduced by Trump — he thinks you come from sh — thole nations, is itching to deport you, and believes Black men are…

Dec 13, 2023

Black Voters’ Dangerous Dance with Trump 2.0

Dec 13, 2023

“Problem Children”: Disrupting Toxic Narratives about Black Students

Imagine being a Black eight, nine or ten year old and being herded into a “special” elementary school assembly that only Black students at…

Sep 20, 2023

“Problem Children”: Disrupting Toxic Narratives about Black Students

Sep 20, 2023

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Books that Save Lives: The Oasis of Black Queer Young Adult Literature

In the midst of white supremacist book bans, community and school libraries have become battlegrounds and oases

Aug 10, 2023

Books that Save Lives: The Oasis of Black Queer Young Adult Literature

Aug 10, 2023

Shelter from the Storm: On Epidemic Sadness and Trauma Among Girls and Queer Youth

In her book, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861, the 19th century abolitionist and author Harriet Jacobs entitles one…

Mar 3, 2023

Shelter from the Storm: On Epidemic Sadness and Trauma Among Girls and Queer Youth

Mar 3, 2023

For Tyre, who loved sunsets

For Tyre, who loved sunsets

Feb 2, 2023

For Tyre, who loved sunsets

Feb 2, 2023

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Medical Apartheid in Inglewood: Justice for April Valentine

Reverence for white pregnant women, white motherhood, and the maintenance of white families are an integral part of American national…

Jan 31, 2023

Medical Apartheid in Inglewood: Justice for April Valentine

Jan 31, 2023

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Defining Themselves, For Themselves: Supporting Black Queer Youth Agency in Perilous Times

A few weeks ago, at a Black parent meeting hosted by my child’s high school, I encountered homophobic pushback from parents who objected to…

Dec 21, 2022

Defining Themselves, For Themselves: Supporting Black Queer Youth Agency in Perilous Times

Dec 21, 2022

What’s at Stake for Black Girls and Young Women in the Midterms?

Today is National Voter Registration Day, and the stakes couldn’t be higher for young Black women and girls. With the midterms looming…

Sep 20, 2022

What’s at Stake for Black Girls and Young Women in the Midterms?

Sep 20, 2022

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The Rainbow on the Highway and Preventing Suicide Among Black Girls

“I was driving the №1 Highway in northern California and I was overcome by the appearance of two parallel rainbows. I had a feeling of…

Jul 14, 2022

The Rainbow on the Highway and Preventing Suicide Among Black Girls

Jul 14, 2022

The Future of Black Wealth and L.A.’s Mayor’s Race

For the past few months, billionaire Rick Caruso has been hijacking L.A.’s mayoral race, ramping up his law and order fearmongering message…

May 26, 2022

The Future of Black Wealth and L.A.’s Mayor’s Race

May 26, 2022

Uplifting Black Community in Buffalo, Defeating White Terror in Amerikkka

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May 19, 2022

Uplifting Black Community in Buffalo, Defeating White Terror in Amerikkka

May 19, 2022

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Sapphire Unbound: The Radical Imagination of bell hooks

Extending her global classroom to us, hooks made radical space possible for all the transgressive Black girls who are reading, writing…

Dec 22, 2021

Sapphire Unbound: The Radical Imagination of bell hooks

Dec 22, 2021

Sikivu Hutchinson

Sikivu Hutchinson

Writer and educator, Founder of WLP, Author of Humanists in the Hood, the novel White Nights, Black Paradise and the speculative fiction podcast Sleep Dystopias

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