The thoughts of a regular human being.
As the tweets and statements parsing President Obama's speech announcing the new initiative My Brother's Keeper started to roll in late yesterday afternoon, I began to remember the antics of one man: Tavis Smiley. Already a household name with a powerful platform on PBS and in Black circles, Smiley was one of those people who …
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Before Barack Obama ascended to the Executive Branch of our government, my favorite Black historical figure was not the one most would expect, say Frederick Douglass or George Washington Carver. It wasn't even Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, or even Jackie Robinson. And no, it wasn't even Martin Luther King, the one who everyone these …
I've spoken in limited slang since I was little, only beginning to pick some up after being teased by my cousins for "talking white." I never went to any type of public or private school throughout my teenage years. I have yet to read anything from James Baldwin, yet all over social media I see people …
Yes, I do mourn for Jordan Davis. I mourn for the fact that yesterday would have been his 19th birthday. I mourn that Jordan Davis will never again walk this plane of existence, or be anything more than another dead body in a steadily rising count of victims in the wasteland that Florida has become …
If I were to give a metaphor for my philosophy of how I personally view equality ("my truth", if you will), it would be that of a table, spread with food and drink. Seated at my table are people from all walks of life; multiple ethnicities and cultures, orientations and philosophies, coming together to enjoy …
You get used to heroin if you're a native to Baltimore. Even if you've never used the drug yourself, the scars of Baltimore's unmentionable love affair with heroin become gaping eyesores. You see these scars up and down North Avenue, especially on the eastern end at Gay Street, where throngs of people in various stages …
Isaiah L. Carter 