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Tyre Nichols

“Yes, I want enlightenment for white people. I just don’t want my own growth to depend on it,” Thurston writes.
Baratunde Thurston • February 19, 2023

The Black Liberation Paradox

Modern emancipation needs to be more than a function of liberating white minds. Black people also need to find joy on our own terms. What’s the point of saying “Black Lives Matter” if that life is defined solely by struggle?
Baratunde Thurston • February 5, 2023
Thoughts & Tears for Tyre
Rev. Al Sharpton alongside RowVaughn Wells and her husband, Rodney Wells, at the funeral of their 29 year-old Tyre Nichols.
We are overdosing on fear in America. The answer lies in community, an openness to new forms of policing, a new conception of justice, and love.