by Kimberlee Morrison | Jul 7, 2016 | Culture
Today I woke with a heavy heart. In the span of two days, two different black men, in two different states were shot and killed by police. Some of the details change, but the stories are almost always the same. They will find some way, some reason to justify killing...
by Kimberlee Morrison | Feb 10, 2016 | Culture
It was Black History Month and after the obligatory unit on American slavery and Martin Luther King, my history teacher decided the final lesson would be a movie about the Little Rock Nine called “The Earnest Green Story.” I’d seen it before and it...
by Kimberlee Morrison | Aug 20, 2015 | Culture, Politics
I’ve been working in digital media for a decade, and every year is proclaimed the year of outrage. While digital media has democratized information and given rise to new sources of information, it has also demonstrated how quickly we are to formulate opinions....
by Kimberlee Morrison | Aug 5, 2015 | Culture
Facebook can be deceiving. I’m not talking about the business of Facebook and how it manipulates our news feeds. I’m talking more about how the connections we make on Facebook manipulate our perceptions of people and the world. You see, I’ve used...
by Kimberlee Morrison | Jul 10, 2015 | Culture
This is a question I have been asking myself a lot recently. And I think there are a lot of people who believe the answer is yes. But I don’t think it’s that simple. I think there’s a difference between being racist and being ignorant — and I...
