Opinion

The White House website published a news release blaming the Jan. 6 Capitol riot on Democrats and Nancy Pelosi.

Trump has never come right out and said, "America is a racist empire, and I'm its dictator," but he has done his best to send that exact message loud and clear since the start of his second term.

Kwanzaa teaches Black folks that they are allowed to build meaning deliberately, community can be centered, and identity does not have to be mediated through whiteness.

Black children are not killed because police fail to recognize them as children.  They are killed because they are Black. 

The mission for funerals like Ma'Khia Bryant's should be to celebrate children and mourn lives cut too short. Instead, these live-streamed funerals are part of the choreography of state murders and modern day lynchings of Black bodies.