Before Ice Raids, There Was Stop and Frisk

Before Ice Raids, There Was Stop and Frisk

Before ICE raids terrorized American neighborhoods, there was stop-and-frisk. In marginalized communities, where its members’ civil liberties have been historically threatened by organized violence, the country behaving like a police state is unsurprising.  Political...
Where Do We Place Our Pain?

Where Do We Place Our Pain?

The great question of pain is where we place it. Do we, as Resmaa Menakem says, process, express and honor it, transforming it into clean pain? Or do we force it into the people we perceive as less than human—immigrant, migrant, anyone who isn’t white or male—turning...