Ahmaud Arbery’s Story Is Our Story
Frederic Aurelien/Staff Writer Yesterday, I went running. For answers? Maybe. To find control? Perhaps. If I told you that it was simply to maintain my…
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Former Ferguson, Missouri police chief joins FIUPD
By: Joshua Ceballos/News Director Delrish Moss, the former police chief for Ferguson, Missouri, joined the FIU Police Department as the department’s public information officer…
James Baldwin’s thoughts continue to ‘shine light’ on today’s racial problems
James Baldwin’s forlorn disposition said it all: he was one of those unlucky people who had been compelled, by forces much outside themselves, to reconcile their love for mankind with their knowledge of history.
Editorial – King’s legacy is often misrepresented
We’ll never truly know what King would say about the Black Lives Matter movement, because unfortunately white-nationalism took him away too soon. However, to say he didn’t see color is a gross misconception. To say he believed that black anger should be ignored and invalidated is just plain false.
Letter to the Editor: Black lives are not Kodak moments
Nykeema Radway//President of the Black Student Union The Beacon chose to publish a photo of a group of students posing like the rapper, Kodak Black,…
The follies of Colin Kaepernick’s logic
What people like Kaepernick, Beyoncé and many others believe is that the entire fabric of the United States is tainted by racism.
Students: ‘we are at war with the state’
The Black Lives Matter movement has swept the nation in hopes of drawing awareness to the fact that the life of a black individual is just as valuable as the life of any other individual.
FIUSM to facilitate student-police forum
We hope that by facilitating discussion among the FIU community and by providing a space for honesty and sincerity, FIUSM can assist the students and the University in taking real steps towards change.
‘Just comply’ advice belies systemic racism
Compliance and cooperation is the only advice Miami-Dade County police officers had for a group of sixth through 10th graders in the Haitian Mentoring Program.
Black justice is not blue death
Our misconceptions have brought us to where we are today, and now these men in blue—Brent Thompson, Patrick Zamarripa, Michael Krol, Lorne Ahrens, and Michael Smith—have lost their lives because of it.