George Zimmerman verdict
This Is My Beautiful, Smart Nephew Miles. He Will Change the World. And #HeIsNotASuspect
Editor’s Note: In response to the George Zimmerman verdict and the flood of responses from its readers, ESSENCE magazine is launching #HeIsNotASuspect, a powerful social...
Denene Millner – Jul 23, 2013
After Trayvon, A White Woman Grapples with White Privilege and White Silence
White privilege wasn't easy for this woman to see, until she considered the death of Trayvon Martin.
MyBrownBaby Staff – Jul 19, 2013
In Trayvon Martin’s Name: Words, Art and Music Inspired By the Death of the Son We All Call Our Own
Some of the finest of art is painted with the broad colors of our pain: Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit,” would not have existed if not...
Denene Millner – Jul 17, 2013
The George Zimmerman Verdict Is Deeply Inhumane. This Is Why We Need To Keep Fighting.
Who prays for our sons? When their bodies are bloodied, broken and frozen in the footnotes of this, our complicated history, who falls to their...
Denene Millner – Jul 15, 2013