Areva Martin: Today’s Voice On Issues That Matter
“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.” — Frederick Douglass On July 4th, 1776, the Declaration
It’s time to take a close look at pride and intersectionality. Pride month: a time to celebrate and protest, a time to reflect on how far we’ve come, while acknowledging how far we have to go. It is important to prioritize joy during this time, but it
“To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.” ― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
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