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No strings donations: Breaking the cycle of privilege’s rules

November 28, 2021 by Heather Denkmire

A few months ago as I was walking with a friend, she was telling me about people in her home country who had even less money than she does. She was telling me about them because I had given her some money and she wanted to tell me about who the money was helping. I …

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Categories class, Commentary, Money, White folks 3 Comments

Verdict is in, holidays are here: Live your values

November 23, 2021 by Shay

As this country continues its racial awakening and reckoning, certain things have become almost predictable. It’s time to break that cycle of predictability, because that is part of what keeps us from mass movement and change.  The acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse may have been gut-wrenching and shocking to some, but for me—and many Black people …

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Categories Activism, Racial and Cultural, White folks

One year later and not much has changed

May 31, 2021 by Shay

As I write this post, it’s been one year since George Floyd was killed, sparking all kinds of protests nationwide and bringing attention to racist police brutality, systemic racism, and the importance of recognizing how Black lives have been devalued. And those protests were on a scale we really hadn’t seen before. It was a …

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Categories Activism, Current Events, Racial and Cultural, White folks
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