By Jenny Horn Human Rights Day is observed every year on the 10th of December, marking the date that the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) back in 1948. The milestone document proclaims the inalienable rights that everyone is entitled to as a human…
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By Aryana Goodarzi Today is the birthday of the legendary Stacey Abrams! Abrams really brought to light how Black people in the U.S. are systematically deprived of their right to vote through racism and voter suppression laws. Evenwel v. Abbot established “one person, one vote” as the basis of voting…
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Who is the U.S. Archivist and what does he do? David S. Ferriero is the 10th Archivist of the United States, confirmed to the position in November of 2009. According to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) website, Ferriero committed the National Archives and Records Administration to the principles…
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By Aryana Goodarzi December 2nd, the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, is meant to confront how slavery and the racism from it still exists. The inherency of racism makes it systemic, not systematic in the way that slavery is a system but racism is systematic - it exists…
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By Jenny Horn The ERA Coalition, an organization led by women of color, represents millions of people and more than 200 allied organizations whose common mission is to see the Equal Rights Amendment ratified and implemented within the United States Constitution. As we continue our fight towards the constitutional protections…
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By Aryana Goodarzi December is Human Rights Month. While equality has been measured in terms of how many laws there are defining equality, the United States is based on interpretation of the law, making this measurement of equality truly lacking. The 14th Amendment is supposedly the basis of equality in…
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Those of us who believe in equality and justice can find some hope in the jury’s decision to convict the three men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery. Arbery was targeted and victimized solely because of his race, and the jurors recognized that fact with their verdict. May his family find…
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By Aryana Goodarzi Want to confront colonialism with your bookcase? These are some must reads we have for Native American Heritage Month. Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot “My story was maltreated. The words were too strong and ugly to speak. I tried to tell someone my story…
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By Velu Ochoa “In my culture we have people who dress half-man, half-woman. Winkte, we call them in our language. If you are Winkte, that is an honorable term and you are a special human being and among my nation and all Plains people, we consider you a teacher of…
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By Aryana Goodarzi This week is Trans Awareness Week; and our latest edition of “books to add to your To Be Read pile (TBR)”, includes A Year Without a Name by Cyrus Dunham and Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg, and The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson - three must-reads on…
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