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Social Justice
by LYAT MELESE (United States)
August 2022
My mother fries chicken for dinner
says she hasn’t seen real chicken in America
by CELINA JOHNSON (United States)
August 2022
I have a goal in life—to build the Black community here in America.
by RANI CHOR (United States)
September 2021
Gen Z is not afraid of speaking out against policies; we are starving for justice.
by BRIELLE YOUNG (United States)
September 2021
The story my grandfather told continues to shape me today.
by CLAIRE SWADLING (United States)
September 2021
Dr. André studies the intersection of identity, race, identity—and opera.
by MUSKAAN ARSHAD (United States)
September 2021
It is our job to be allies and fight alongside Black Americans for equality.
by PRAVARTIKA WANKHEDE (India)
September 2021
Discrimination on the basis of class is illegal. Yet it exists and blooms in this environment of hate.
by MILI THAKRAR (United Kingdom)
September 2021
Discussing racism is of paramount importance; it is also a sensitive and controversial issue.
by JOSEPH MULLEN (United States)
September 2021
Racial disparities in the American healthcare system absolutely exist.
by ALLI LOWE (United States)
September 2021
The scariest aspect of the Bay Area's disparity is just how little acknowledgement it receives.
by CHLOE SOW (United States)
September 2021
We often forget how Black communities and Asian communities have stood up for each other.
by STELLA WESTON (New Zealand)
September 2021
"For many of us, this is not a new moment in time," says the young Māori activist.
by AMY NAM (Canada)
September 2021
As early as nine years old, I stood in front of my bathroom mirror, poking and prodding at the skin above my eyes to create double eyelids.
by EDWIGE GHEMBESALU (United States)
April 2021
They tell us to put our hands up. Then, they ask us why we moved. Sister, that is why they shoot. Because we move.
by CARISSA CEASOR (United States)
December 2020
Shirk your sense of responsibility.
Leave your guilt at the door of progress.
by TAZ HANCOCK (Hong Kong)
December 2020
I believe in justice,
in our voices, in theirs
by YASMINE BOLDEN (United States)
December 2020
You have never known those shores or those
people or those words that sound like a memory
by AMALIA COSTA (United Kingdom)
August 2020
We come in droves, frothing at the mouth and baying for blood.
Our enemy invisible, stretched across the world like the taut skin of a drum.
by ARIA MALLARE (United States)
August 2020
Don't you swat at a fly.
Don't you mindlessly shoot that harmless creature to the ground.
by LEE GAINES (United States)
August 2020
you have learned there is both good and bad about where you live.
you have learned the stubbornest people on the planet are Southern.
by AURELLI LAZUARDI (Singapore)
April 2020
Negro Swan allows Devonte Hynes to address his struggles as a young black man in the UK.
by KIANA JACKSON (Australia)
September 2019
You're deplorable, horrible, despicable, ignorable. You reiterate, evaluate, desiccate . . .
by ENOK CHOE (United States)
September 2019
In November 2018, the horrific picture of a migrant mother and her daughters fleeing . . .
by SAMANTHA WAGNER (United States)
April 2019
I believe in
People Places,
A Place for every Person to
by ANNA DAVIDSON (United Kingdom)
April 2019
Teenagers are the ones who change history. They have to be. It’s kids with lumps in their throats, bright blue sparks in their fingertips and purple-braced snarls screaming for equality who are the ones who achieve it, their words the upbeat crashdrum of change.