Stanford Social Innovation Review

In an equitable world, a child’s background would not determine their life outcomes. However, in reality, children whose families or communities face systemic disadvantages in everything from healthcare to education to employment are far less likely than children of privilege to secure the life opportunities they desire for themselves. (Image by Aurelia Durand)

al.com

I'm writing to talk directly to those people about something that I wish I'd had the knowledge to discuss 15 years ago. I'm writing to call out the flip side of what you all said to me. I want to explain how that view of black people is the exact same worldview that leads to the indiscriminate killing of black men, women and children. It's the same worldview that created and necessitates the Black Lives Matter movement.

Medium.com

We are nearly halfway through 2016, and yet I remember clearly how I found out that Trayvon Martin had died.