Unfiltered stories of Black resistance, erased heroes, and hidden truths. We connect the past to today’s fights so the next generation never has to ask “why didn’t they teach us this?”
Black people are tired. I am tired.
We are tired of being told we don’t see what’s happening to us with our own eyes. We are tired of being told not to trust what we’ve experienced for generations.
We are being murdered.
Whether it’s by the police, ICE, or at the hands of people we considered friends, we are being murdered. Yet this country expects us to become desensitized to it. We are expected to accept whatever narrative is offered to explain away another Black death.
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Nolan Wells was 18 years old. He had recently graduated from high school, committed to playing football at Southwest Mississippi Community College, and spent the Fourth of July on Horn Island off Mississippi’s Gulf Coast with friends. A few days later, his body was recovered from the water near the island.
