Click to watch Zianna Oliphant make a tearful plea to the Charlotte City Council This is not okay. I have watched youth speak out in Asheville and here it is in Charlotte. Young Black children pleading to folks with government power for their parents to not be killed, for their Black bodies to not be […]
Author Archives: ashley
Decolonizing Education, Theory of Change
Education curriculum, the spoken and unspoken rules, language, and the ways education operates are uniquely responsible for creating and perpetuating the inequality that exists in so many aspects of modern human society. This slide deck is very illuminating to me in the way it lays things out. It offers a framework for seeing the different […]
Ways To Take Action
Now is a time of action. The violence, injustice and violation of human rights in this country is out of hand. I believe we are nearing a complete system breakdown on so many fronts. The question is… will those who are taking action to shift violently dysfunctional systems and those who are creating new alternatives […]
Narratives Can Be Altered
From Alvin C Jacobs Jr on the frontlines in Charlotte: Every single eye witness account is saying that #KeithLamontScott was killed by a white cop but the Charlotte Police are saying that the cop was black. Every single eye witness account is saying that the cops fired rubber bullets [metal ball bearings with plastic coatings] into a crowd of […]
Words are Insufficient
On days like today, my fingers go silent, my words jumble, who I’m typing to feels complex… different things to say to different people. So many veins of feeling passing through my heart. I send so much love to those who need it today — particularly Black folks. Thank you for surviving. Please take gentle […]
Caring for Your Whole Self
Please take care of yourself… and encourage others to do the same. It ain’t easy being human. <3 Originally posted on Facebook by Monica Mitchell
From My Perspective…
From my perspective… The majority of us live in bubbles. We mostly connect with people who are like us. Our contact with folks who are different primarily comes through media — television, movies, books, social media — or through interactions that revolve around commerce — at a store, restaurant, service station. There are a few […]