By Olivia Levande All week the news (and the gossip blogs) has been saturated with coverage of the Rihanna/Chris Brown incident which took place over the weekend. The LAPD detectives on the case must be taking the files home and slipping them between the matress to safeguard them, because the photos of Rihanna, the report …
Besides coming forward with ANY info you may have in the murder of T. Love… I can tell you first hand that paying for a funeral is a stress that you can never imagine, especially when it’s a funeral you never expected to have. There is pressure, stress and guilt associated with making sure that, …
Photo by Gabrielle Simmons They say there are 7 stages of grief. When I wrote the first article about the murder of Tyrone Love I was mostdef in shock and disbelief. Of all the writing I have done in my life, I felt truly inadequate…unable to fully encapsulate the thoughts, feelings and emotions associated with …
By Sable Verity Change means something to everyone. It can inspire excitement, anticipation or fear. In the last few years, we have seen how the promise of change became reason enough to fundamentally reverse the direction our nation had been blindly pursuing for nearly a decade. Tied to a plummeting economy that sinks us all, …
Photo by Tunde Salisbury By Sable Verity It never matters how tired I am of writing about young Black men being gunned down in Seattle’s streets. It seems we can only manage to have a few weeks pass by before another incident happens, and I am back here, trying to find words that will give …