humanity

Humanity topics include pieces on the real lives of politicians, legislators, activists, women in politics and the everyday voter.

Trump VS Biden
So I am a single mother that does nothing but mostly sit at home with my kids. I used to run my own business cleaning houses. For $10 an hour. But not that COVID-19 hit. It's hard to go out and clean other people's homes.
By Laura mclean5 years ago in The Swamp
Being Black Beyond Language
Black history month continues to feel more like a commodification of both time and blackness, all for the sake of performative visibility for black folks Existing in both African body and American imagination is exhausting to say the least. I walk into rooms with this skin attached to a crop top, and a masculinity that drags a history of objectification with it. Yet now, as we enter another black history month, I find myself yearning for an expansive imagination that gives humanity, possibility, and curiosity back to bodies such as my own; and with it, other marginalized humans who are still under the gaze of anglocentric imaginations.
By Jonathan5 years ago in The Swamp
The Case for Anarchy
WHAT IS ANARCHY? It is said that he who controls the narrative controls the people. This adage is aptly slapped on the term "anarchy", as the media and government (one and the same?) attempt to control the populace by controlling the meaning of words. Every time a group riots or someone engages in mass violence, the news stories and reports march lock-step in proclaiming the event to be "anarchy". The recent "revolution" at the Capitol is a case in point. Fifty cents for every time anarchy was used in a story surrounding this would be a nifty retirement fund. So...What IS anarchy?
By RavensCraft 95 years ago in The Swamp
Native Injustice: The Neglected Reality - Part 1
There is a group of people that I feel the rest of the country forget and have overlooked for many years: Native Americans. As we get into a new year and are still dealing with a global pandemic, it is also time for us to address the many issues that Native Americans face every day. They are our fellow Americans whether we like it or not. Some of them have served honorably in our military and in many other aspects in this country. Yet they are living in conditions that are not livable to the average person.
By Dawon Roy5 years ago in The Swamp
A Letter to Humankind
The echoes of our voices have started a revolution And now ecstatic prophecies ascend of a new world for humankind The new world echos of true liberation
By Diana Palma5 years ago in The Swamp
Why am I here..
(S/O to Jen X Journal for the push!) "Didn't you fail English in high school" Mr. Shipwreck said carefully over a plate of Keto cabbage and bacon. I looked at him, teary eyed still from losing my Tiktok & followers with whom I had conversed with on a daily basis for the last 7 months.
By Ship Wreck5 years ago in The Swamp
Freedom of Speech is a Human Right
Lately, freedom of speech seems to be under siege by illiberal forces that can't seem to handle that humans should have rights, and it should be cause for alarm.
By Chris Hearn5 years ago in The Swamp
The Black Revolution Begins‼️
It was a Wednesday like none other. The date of February 1, 1865, when then President Abraham Lincoln approved the Joint Resolution of Congress submitting The 13th amendment to the Constitution of these States United. It provides the following.....
By Erik DeSean Barrett5 years ago in The Swamp
The Romanian Revolution
The Romania Revolution of 1989 consisted of a series of protests, street fights and demonstrations held in Romania, between December 16 and 25, 1989, which led to the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and the end of the communist regime in Romania. The growing demonstrations resulted in the trial and execution of the Ceausescu. Before the Romanian revolution, all other Eastern European states had peacefully converted to democracy; Romania was the only country in the Eastern bloc that went through a violent revolution and in which the communist leaders were executed.
By Alina Neagu5 years ago in The Swamp
Lincoln's Tears
With the "Nation's River" at his back, he sits stone-faced, staring far across the grassy green, around the obelisk to his original predecessor, and a mile past that, to the living monument of our country's democracy.
By Mark Elliott Creative5 years ago in The Swamp
The Struggle of Black People
👋🏾 There, its EDB, thats Erik DeSean Barrett for long. Here for another moment of Thought. It is no secret, since the signing of the emancipation proclamation, that black and brown family are struggling in these states united. They face a plethora of issues many of which has gone unnoticed, and to some degree has been intensified by those who find it profitable to hold certain communities down.
By Erik DeSean Barrett5 years ago in The Swamp
Re opening schools?
A recent briefing from the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, New America, and Brown University School of Public Health, draws attention from a growing body of evidence to recommend that K-12 schools should remain open in a pandemic, even under high infection rates.
By Viona Aminda5 years ago in The Swamp