Remembering Malcolm X, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz’s Death
58 years ago today, one of my greatest heroes and influences was assassinated. A scholar, author, revolutionary, leader, and organizer, Malcolm X, and later El-Hajj Malik…
America Has Never Had A Good President
Every year on or before America’s “President’s Day,” I like to reflect on the different leaders the US has had and why there’s no such…
A Day of Remembrance for Japanese Internment
Every year, I try to remember some of the most important historical days for people of my cultures and other backgrounds: Lā Kuʻokoʻa, Lā Hoʻihoʻi Eā,…
Alfonza Needs Help Coming Home
I’ve spoken before about the importance of writing to and communicating with our incarcerated loved ones/neighbors/comrades, and I’ve been lucky enough to have had two…
Abolish the Policing that Killed Tyre Nichols
Tyre Nichols was murdered by Memphis PD during a traffic stop at the beginning of January. He was a 29-year-old father to a 4-year-old son…
Celebrating Angela Davis on Her 79th Birthday
Angela Davis has been one of my greatest inspirations and paragons over the past few years since I discovered organizing around prison industrial complex abolition…
130 Years Since Hawaiʻi’s Illegal Overthrow
On this day in 1893, a coup d’état of white American businessmen in Hawaiʻi, backed by the U.S. minister and military, banded together and illegally overthrew the…