Zenobia Jeffries Warfield: This Is America
We’re not asking you to shoot them like you shoot us, we’re asking you to NOT shoot us like you don’t shoot them…
Zenobia Jeffries Warfield: What the White Debate Stage Says About Racial Equity
Sanders and Warren are the only remaining candidates who’ve introduced policies aimed at addressing racial inequity, but many folks of color are skeptical of their commitment to those policies.
Zenobia Jeffries Warfield: It’s Time for Effective Oversight of Police Violence
What is it going to take to stop this madness?
Zenobia Jeffries Warfield: Police Are Still Killing Unarmed Black People
So far this year, 390 people have been killed by police, according to a Washington Post database of police shootings. Since the newspaper began tracking that information in 2015, about 1,000 people have been killed each year by police.
Zenobia Jeffries Warfield: The Kitchen as Classroom — How Food Helps Students Learn Leadership
The Detroit Food Academy works with local educators, chefs, and business owners to teach young people entrepreneurial skills.
Zenobia Jeffries Warfield: The Part About MLK Many White People Don’t Like to Talk About
Many of the conditions that he marched, boycotted, and spoke out against still exist today—racism, materialism, militarism.
Zenobia Jeffries Warfield: 8 Must-Reads by Women Who Take on White Supremacy and Patriarchal Power
These authors pull no punches as they take on topics of race, gender, and justice.
Zenobia Jefferies: Don’t Trash Thanksgiving. Decolonize It
Despite the holiday’s false origin tale, we can celebrate with our families in ways that honor those whom the day originally dishonored. Ultimately, within our families and communities and schools, … Continue reading →
Zenobia Jeffries: A Way to Talk About Race, 6 Words at a Time
The Race Card Project eases people into conversations around the uneasy topic of race and racism. . If you were asked to sum up your thoughts about race in six … Continue reading →
Zenobia Jeffries: The Racist Origin of the Second Amendment and the Rise of Black Gun Ownership
Many people of color are faced with uneasy support for a civil right that began as a way to oppress them. . Siwatu-Salama Ra, 26, will likely spend the next … Continue reading →
Zenobia Jeffries: The “Redneck Revolt” Is Showing Up at Gun Shows and KKK Rallies to End White Supremacy
This rural White organization put out a call for working-class Whites to “reject the idea of whiteness.” Last year, following the presidential election, I wrote a column suggesting that people who … Continue reading →
Zenobia Jeffries: Charlottesville Was Not a “Protest Turned Violent,” It Was a Planned Race Riot
Isn’t it time for the media to be honest and call white supremacists the domestic terrorists that they are? In July of last year, after The New York Post ran … Continue reading →