The Protests

The Protests

If you want peace, work for justice

Fifteen days and nights into this nationwide conflagration, the protests following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis are truly navigating the unknown.

Enormous crowds, overwhelmingly peaceful and highly diverse, have erupted in cities across the country; a movement against police brutality has been met with police brutality; the US president has responded with one of the most memorable — and violent — photo ops of the modern era.

Green Horizontal Ruler

author Kimberly Jones

Green Horizontal Ruler

Explaining White Privilege To A Broke White Person

Understand that being born with white skin in America affords people certain unearned privileges in life that people of other skin colors simply are not afforded.

Recognizing privilege simply means being aware that some people have to work much harder just to experience the things you take for granted (if they ever can experience them at all).

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