June 2019

How They See Them: Black Men in America

This past weekend I curled up on my couch and watched Ava DuVernay’s newest production “When They See Us.” As I watched, it pained me to know what I was seeing wasn’t fiction. It was a real life encounter of five boys who were wrongfully convicted of brutally beating and raping a white woman in central park. Racist ideologies and stereotypes are often used as grounds to lockup or even… Read More »How They See Them: Black Men in America