NLR WRITES

I am Fake! By Keletso Chris

via I am Fake!

All this talk about fake people around me can make one forget that I too am fake. I have to admit it but don’t get me wrong – I’m trying to be real so I can have something to be proud of.

Being stuck in the middle of the person I am and the person I want to be is probably where most people are. The self-evaluation process only gets more clouded by the inclusion of the ego into the…

Wasafiri - The Traverlers This science-fiction, Afro-futuristic short story, tells the tale of Nakiebra and her family, as other-worldly visitors take them and others, on a ride they'll never forget. Will they all make it together?

  I never really do sleep at night, Nakiebra thought to herself. I don’t get it, I feel tired, and want to go to sleep, but can’t.

It was already 2:57 in the morning, and Nakiebra had spent the night tossing and turning. She knew that her mama and siblings would be waking up soon for their hiking trip down the mountain. Maybe she was excited; but she felt it was a little more than just…

I was once a Slave... The true-life experience of a slavery reenactment that took place during a camp retreat. Told from the perspective of a "runaway" slave.

“Get down on the ground now! You worthless pigs!”

The year is 2005, and I’m sitting on a green grass field with at least 50 other high-schooled aged kids. We were all just warned that the re-enactment that we were about to engage in, would take us back to the time of slavery, and that, anytime we felt uncomfortable, we could stop our participation.

“On the ground now!”

Immediately after our…

A THOUGHT ON “SLAVERY WAS A CHOICE”

Kanye West is now under fire after saying in a TMZ interview, that slavery sounded like it was choice, having gone on for 400 years. People are dragging him for making these statements, but I’m the type of person who 1) don’t think along the lines of popular thought anyway 2) and like to consider a perspective and possible reasons for it. So with that, I started to think of the reasons that Kanye…

Superman is BLACKITY BLACK-BLACK! And Batman is a white capitalist... What else is new? A socio-political look at the embodiment of each character.

April 18th, 2018 marked the 80th anniversary of Superman’s beginnings. And though I may not be an avid comic book reader, Superman has always been a personal favorite of mine. He is undoubtedly the super hero of all super heroes- he can fly, is super fast, super strong, and the list goes on and on. I would have to say, (quite obviously) that in a debate of who would win in a fight between…

The Aftermath of Police Brutality- A Documentary

Videos of black men and women being murdered by police officers, is imagery that has become a far-to-common visual in many homes across the world. On July 19, 2015, Da’Shonda Reid lost her fiancee, and the biological father to three of her children, Samuel DuBose, who was pulled over for a missing front license plate. Within 6 minutes of…

I must look to the moon,

I must look to the trees,

I must look to the stars,

Before I begin to realize

Who and what I am 

Who and what we are

All small particles

But the manifestation of one being;

Of varying differences we may appear to be 

Our similarity is the quest of

Just being.

To come into peace

With who we are

Because all that is around you,

Is within you-

The moon,

The trees,

The stars,

The power of words are explored by online presence, KindFeelings. A reminder of how to be mindful of what we speak and don't speak into existence.

Sometimes we unknowingly hold ourselves back with the words we use in everyday conversation. It is therefore important to take special care with the words we use to describe ourselves and experiences. 89 more words

via Words Program Your Subconscious. Be Mindful Of Your Speech — kindfeelings

Sometimes we unknowingly hold ourselves back with the words we use in everyday conversation. It is…

"Why Life is Standing in Your Way," Written by Tinashe Mutuda, aka Fearlessopher--the combining of Fearless, and Philosopher. He creates a very insightful take on what is holding people back in life--themselves.

A golden ticket to freedom

via Why life is standing in your way — FEARLESSOPHER

Life appears to be in your way when you have forgotten that it’s YOU

You think people/bills/exams etc are all against you but they only appear that way because of the energy you give off with your thoughts, emotions, words and actions

To get life to move out of the way, you have to ACCEPT life and SURRENDER to it.…

"That the overall result of military prepped police forces that are armed against its very civilians, and act as an entity that restricts basic civil rights, is that which is martial law." --Operation Martial Law

Back in 2013, I left the US and traveled to teach in Beijing, China. I was there for a year and a half, and enjoyed every moment of it. In that experience I learned a lot: about myself, about the Chinese, their ways of being; but what I learned that was most revealing to me, was the objective view I had gained of America during the time I was away.

A year before my leaving, Trayvon Martin had…

Shelva Paulse PhD. gives an updated report on the current status of women in South Africa.

It is important that we as a people are constantly growing, through analysis of our present conditions. If we do not know where we stand as a collective, we can never know  what we need in order to move forward. It is great that we are able to be better connected with multitudes of people through the internet, and conversations with those from different backgrounds than of our own.

It was through…

A Synopsis: Universal Declarations of Human Rights

Welcome to the first addition of NLR Writes: Human Rights, where a series of human rights analysis pieces will be introduced on a regular basis. But before we can really get into human rights discrepancies within the US, abroad, and throughout the world, we must truly know what it means.

Human rights are just that–rights that are guaranteed to each and every individual, regardless of color, sex,…