Tag: Politics

Ruth Bader Ginsburg the Revolutionary 2020 Couldn’t Live Without

Angela Dennis

“I want to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability. And to help repair tears in her society, to make things a little better through the use of whatever ability she has. To do something outside myself. Cause I’ve gotten much more satisfaction for the things that I’ve done for which I was not paid”, Ginsburg told Irin Carmon in a 2015 interview on MSNBC. The revolutionary icon departed today at the age of 87 to…

Black Women CAN Save The United States But It’s Not Their Responsibility

mdclayton92

As the 2020 Democratic National Convention kicked off on the evening of August 17 and as former First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama gave remarks, a tweet was posted by Mexican politician and diplomat, Jorge Guajardo and the world stood still. The tweet quickly went viral as people, many of whom were Black women clapped back at Ambassador Guajardo for his incredibly tone deaf position. While I “think” I get the point he was trying to make, it wasn’t expressed in the best way. It definitely made me…

Science Fiction, Horror, and Black family Love collide in HBO’s Lovecraft Country

CJ Lawrence

By Celestial Imagine American Gods, American Horror Story, Get Out, and Aliens had a tryst and produced a love child… That love child would probably look something like HBO’s Lovecraft Country. I am a one-toe-in kind of woman when it comes to Sci-Fi. If it looks too scary, you’ll find me tipping out like the SpongeBob meme. {insert “Aight, Imma Head Out” meme} However, I’m going to put my “big girl panties” on after watching the trailers for Lovecraft Country, the newest of which left my jaw resting in my…

5 Women Quarantined and Left w/o Food, Water, Medicine and Staff Support in Mississippi Prison

CJ Lawrence

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Five women have been reported as quarantined in Quick Bed at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility (CMCF). The women have been left without food, water, medicine such as insulin and medical staff support. The guards on duty have placed garbage bags over the windows and cameras preventing the women from reaching out for help. The women are relying on the guards’ good mercy and capacity to come and check on them. This information was received from a loved one of a woman that was placed in quarantine.…

Judge Latrice Westbrooks could make history as Mississippi’s First Woman Elected and First Black Woman ever on Supreme Court

CJ Lawrence

Judge Latrice Westbrooks has the opportunity to become the FIRST woman in Mississippi History to be elected to the Supreme Court & the First Black woman to ever sit as a Supreme Court Justice for the state. Westbrooks was a current Judge for the Court of Appeals. She has served as both a municipal court judge & appellate court judge. https://www.instagram.com/tv/CDcwSKeju2M/?igshid=6zbshkdmp8v Her opponent is an appointee of the previous governor. Never in Mississippi’s history has there been a better opportunity than right now to have a voice like hers on…