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03/30/2025
Everywhere I Look, Evil Is Winning
This is not a pep talk.
I’m not here to offer silver linings or hope wrapped in platitudes. I’m saying this out loud because if I don’t, I will choke on the silence.
Everywhere I look, evil is winning.
That is not metaphor. Not exaggeration. It is the quiet scream lodged in my chest. I write it because the act of naming still matters—perhaps most when it feels like no one is listening.
This isn’t just a bad news cycle or a season of hard times. It is something deeper, more corrosive. It is structural. It is intentional. It is rehearsed and refined and executed with a precision that dares you to call it what it is: evil.
We are living in the mouth of something monstrous.
I’ve stopped asking, “How did we get here?”
We are here.
The doors that should have stayed shut have been kicked wide open. What once was unthinkable is now law. What once was unlawful is now standard. What once was fringe is now the center of power.
Judges are mocked. Scientists silenced. Protesters detained. Institutions, gutted. Children watch as truth is twisted into spectacle. Books disappear. Facts are drowned beneath floods of falsehood. Grief doesn’t even have time to finish its sentence before the next horror begins.
This is not fiction. This is not satire. This is the news.
I am not writing to be brave. I do not feel brave. I feel cracked. Thin. Hollowed out by the endless churn of cruelty that no longer even bothers to mask itself. I feel like I am watching something sacred die—publicly, slowly, to the sound of applause.
Toni Morrison wrote: “The function of freedom is to free someone else.” But what happens when even the language of freedom is under siege? When speech is punished, when history is redacted, when memory itself is suspect?
This is not a call to action. Not today.
This is not hope dressed in fine clothes.
This is not a balm, or a banner.
This is just the truth.
I am tired.
I am afraid.
I am angry.
I am not okay.
And I know I am not alone.
If you are grieving, you are not weak.
If you are angry, you are not bitter.
If you are terrified, you are not paranoid.
If you are numb, that too is a kind of knowing.
Survival is not small. To still feel in the face of all this is its own defiance.
To speak plainly. To name the harm. To bear witness when lies are cheap and truth is costly—that is the work. That is the record.
Everywhere I look, evil is winning.
But I write this so that it is written:
We saw it.
We said it.
We did not look away.
And maybe—just maybe—that will mean something later.
10/11/2021
Happy Indigenous People Day! Please Check Out The Events All Over The Country To Celebrate .
CHICAGO
Celebration by the Indigenous Peoples’ Day Coalition - Illinois
10:00 a.m. - CDT
Pottawatomie Park
7430 North Rogers
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
Indigenous Peoples’ Day Celebration
4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Riverside Park
Monroe Avenue
Grand Rapids, Michigan
There will be a round dance, decolonized food demonstrations, a ghost supper teaching, an Indigenous art demonstration, and Chili and Frybread from Bneshi Miyem.
SAN FRANCISCO
Annual Indigenous Day Celebration
12 noon – 3 p.m. – PDT
Esplanade, Yerba Buena Gardens
700 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Free event. There will be Native American art, music and vendors. This event highlights the diverse and talented community of Indigenous artists in the Bay Area and California.
NEW YORK
Seventh Annual Indigenous Peoples’ Day Celebration
7:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. - EDT
20 Randalls Island Park
New York, New York
Sunrise Ceremony
7:00 a.m. - EDT
There will be a sunrise ceremony at the start of the event, a water ceremony and also guest speakers.
This is all taking place at 20 Randalls Island Park, NYC. There is free admission and free parking. http://ow.ly/5Ivr50GpBFI
DETROIT, MICHIGAN
Indigenous Peoples’ Day Detroit 2021
6:00 p.m. – EDT
Culture House
4114 Bagley Street
Detroit, MI 48209
Vibes with the Tribes, We Are Culture Creators, and Fiesta Vibes Detroit are sponsoring a kickback and open mic night celebration called Ginagishkodaadimin: The Gathering Series.
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
Fifth Annual Indigenous Peoples’ Day Philly
11 am.-5 p.m. – EDT
Shackamaxon (Penn Treaty Park)
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Fossil Fuel Rally
8:30 a.m. – EDT
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,
Washington, D.C.
Indigenous people and allies will be hosting a space at the White House to speak out against Fossil Fuel addiction. Many different Indigenous and Ally groups will be in attendance.
12/28/2020
Filmmaker Nia DaCosta Makes History as First Black Woman to Direct a Marvel Movie - AfroTech Black women in film have been making major strides this year. As a filmmaker, Nia DaCosta is one of the latest to be added to the growing list of groundbreaking achievements as she was named director of “Captain Marvel 2,” making her the first Black woman to direct a movie in the Marvel Studios ...
12/27/2020
A ‘Great Cultural Depression’ Looms for Legions of Unemployed Performers With theaters and concert halls shuttered, unemployment in the arts has cut deeper than in restaurants and other hard-hit industries.
12/27/2020
Rare interview with Toni Morrison on the importance of reading and writing | CBC Radio In this rare, personal interview from 2002, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison talks candidly about her life as an African-American writer with IDEAS producer Marilyn Powell.
12/17/2020
Tom Cruise Erupts at ‘Mission: Impossible’ Crew Over Covid-19 Breachhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/movies/tom-cruise-covid.html
Tom Cruise Erupts at ‘Mission: Impossible’ Crew Over Covid-19 Breach On a film set in Britain, the actor tore into the crew with an expletive-laden rant. Production of the blockbuster film had previously been delayed by the pandemic.
12/17/2020
MLB elevates Negro Leagues to major-league status, correcting ‘long-time oversight’ The records and statistics of the Negro Leagues will be incorporated into MLB history, a century after the leagues were formally introduced
12/17/2020
Boosie Badazz | Hotboxin with Mike Tyson Boosie Badazz or simply Boosie (formerly Lil Boosie), is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and actor from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
11/22/2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK3T_6iA9TI
Boosie Badazz | Hotboxin with Mike Tyson Boosie Badazz or simply Boosie (formerly Lil Boosie), is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and actor from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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