The lies of racism

By leslieboyd / September 24, 2016

Why do so many people, comfortable in their middle-class homes and neighborhoods, buy into the rhetoric that black people hate […]

Again, a black man dies at the hands of police

By leslieboyd / September 21, 2016

Keith Lamont Scott was 43 when he was gunned down by police last night in Charlotte. Police claimed he had […]

By leslieboyd / September 15, 2016

Shirley Teeter has a long history of participating in protests, beginning in the late 1960s with civil rights marches and […]

By leslieboyd / September 14, 2016

“Both sides do it.” What a load of crap. Yes, Hillary Clinton called some of Donald Trump’s supporters “a basket […]

By leslieboyd / September 2, 2016

That’s right, I’m pissed. Really pissed. Brock Turner ruined a woman’s life. She will always be his victim, no matter […]

By leslieboyd / August 28, 2016

Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the national anthem the other day in protest to the injustices suffered every day […]

By leslieboyd / August 16, 2016

First to Comedy Central: What the hell? Canceling The Nightly Show? This is one of the sharpest, funniest, most on-point […]

By leslieboyd / July 7, 2016

Negroes Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind Beware the day They change their mind – Langston Hughes As the […]

By leslieboyd / June 22, 2016

You so wanted Bernie. I know. I did, too. But I also wanted Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern. My generation […]

By leslieboyd / June 15, 2016

Rachel Alexander is one of 53 surviving gunshot victims from Sunday’s massacre at Pulse, an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Fla., […]