“One of the biggest misconceptions is that we have to be a nonprofit to address food insecurity,” says Adam Dole, co-founder of Bento. PHOTO COURTESY OF BENTO In May 2021, Chelsea Vasquez and her mother caught two metro buses from their Inglewood, California, home to St. John’s Well Child & Family Center clinic, where they had appointments to receive their first doses of the COVID-19 … Continue reading Where a Free Meal for Food-Insecure Families Is Just a Text Away

Protestor’s at a Black Lives Matter demonstration. PHOTO BY BRAXTON DANIELS In May of 2020, 17-year-old Darnella Frazier was in front of a local market in Minneapolis, Minnesota, when she saw a White police officer pin a Black man to the ground. She pulled out her phone and pressed record and stood there for more than nine minutes, silently documenting George Floyd’s murder. Frazier’s split-second … Continue reading When Witnessing Becomes Activism

Marycarmen Lara Villanueva, University of Toronto https://narrations.ad-auris.com/widget/the-conversation-canada/in-mexico–how-erasing-black-history-fuels-anti-black-racism In early 2021, a Ghanaian migrant known as Faruku died in the northern Mexican city of Tijuana, near the Mexico-United States border, of an apparent stroke. This was after being turned away from a hospital and later being asked to pay for an ambulance before it would assist him. A report from Refugees International notes that the circumstances … Continue reading In Mexico, how erasing Black history fuels anti-Black racism