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The Environmental Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Understanding how AI negatively impacts the environment involves a willingness to shift our behavior and perspectives around our relationship with nature. The arguments in defense of AI disregard its e. i (environmental impact) since humans are considered destructive without application. Apathy is a strong factor in climate denialism and doomerism.
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The problem with money: Unemployment, Capitalism and Anger

The pervasiveness of money in every aspect of our lives drives us to develop a material fixation, after all, it has the power to change reality. In exchange for riches, we have to jump through arbitrary hoops for a chance to be good workers, budding capitalists. Keeping it real about capitalism, “it is simply obvious…
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Before the polls open: moving past step one

Voting is much more than the physical process; one truly must make a conscious choice to endorse, fund, or defend the actions that follow the ballot.
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The Ballot or the Bullet: 60 years later

April 3, 1964, Malcolm X gave one one of his last speeches, “The Ballot ot the Bullet.” His message about voter consciousness is still relevant in 2024. Many voters believe in the importance of Malcolm’s radicalism but are idly standing by while today’s activists are targeted.
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Transformative Black Feminism and the Struggle Against Gender Inequality in the Civil Rights Movement

Black women’s pursuit of social justice has always centered on women’s rights to vote, education, and personal freedom. Black feminism underwent radical changes as women struggled for rights as women and Black individuals. To fully understand Black women’s contribution to the Civil Rights Movement, we should focus on what events led to the radicalization of…
