Stacey Patton

4 days ago | rnbcincy.com | Stacey Patton |Stacey Patton

The opinions expressed in audio and on this page are those of the author. Last week, thousands rallied in cities across the country for the No Kings protests. This was a grassroots response to Trump’s latest wave of ICE raids. From New York to Phoenix, immigrant families, clergy, organizers, and students marched with signs like “No Human Is Illegal” and “Stop the Raids,” condemning brutal detention conditions and the renewed push to tear families apart.

1 week ago | rnbcincy.com | Stacey Patton |Stacey Patton

They named him Chance. A name heavy with hope, but also haunted by the weight of everything it took to get him here. Chance, because that’s all he was ever given. Not a choice. Not a plan. Just a fragile gamble that his mother’s body could be kept going long enough to pull him from the stillness of a womb no longer connected to breath or voice. His life began last Friday in grief, in defiance of his mother’s will, in the cold hum of machines that replaced her breath.

2 weeks ago | tvone.tv | Alana Seldon |Stacey Patton

As Donald Trump sparks chaos by illegally deploying troops to Los Angeles, as immigration raids intensify, and as protesters are flooding the streets to demand dignity for migrants, far too many Black folks are sitting back on social media platforms singing a tired, familiar song. It’s being sung off-key with a false sense of safety and a dangerous misunderstanding of how white supremacist violence works.

3 weeks ago | woldcnews.com | Stacey Patton |Stacey Patton

Donald Trump loves telling the country that we need more people in the trades instead of racking up college debt. Yet his administration is axing Job Corps — the very program that teaches the most vulnerable kids how to fix engines, wire houses, care for the sick, and build a life. Turns out the only trade Trump thinks poor kids should master is how to pack a trash bag, disappear, and die quietly. So much for making America great again, eh?

3 weeks ago | woldcnews.com | Stacey Patton |Stacey Patton

White America has always been a nation of serial killers. The hair, scalps, ears, skulls, fingers, toes, skin, genitals, and photographs of its Black and Indigenous victims have been hoarded in private basements and attics, archives, and museums, and passed down like heirlooms of racial violence for centuries. After 175 years, Harvard University finally gave up photos of enslaved people they clung to like necrophiliacs with a fetish for Black death.