How did we become so anesthetized to the deaths and suffering of the people at society’s margins?
Author Archives: Isiuwa Omoigui
Tending Our Garden: The United States and the Free World
Often referred to as the “policeman of the world,” the nation has struggled to handle our self-given mandate of fostering democracy and encouraging respect for the rule of law.
On Loving Your Neighbors: Racism in the Christian Community
The call to “love our neighbors as ourselves” is not rooted in sentimentality or mush or comfort. It is deeply rooted in a sense of justice and empathy towards our fellow man. If your love only extends to the blonde-haired and blue-eyed and pale-skinned, then it isn’t loving.
Human Rights for Whom?: America’s Longstanding Commitment to Environmental Racism
Natural disasters rub salt in the open wound of race relations in America. In these moments, we can see that some lives are valued more than others.
Do No Harm: Reflecting on a legacy of pain for black women and girls in the United States
We see and feel the painful legacies of slavery all around us.
OMOIGUI: Sickle Cell Disease and the Medicalization of Blackness
The use of medicine to foreground notions of racial inequality tells the frightening story about how racism permeates almost every aspect of life.
An Interview with David Cay Johnston: Author, Pulitzer Prize-winning Investigative Journalist, and Co-Founder of DC Report
“We’re doing a terrible job of inculcating the values that matter, and the funny thing is, we have a country that has a purpose. They wrote it down for us in the preamble of the Constitution.”
Antigone Re-envisioned: A Night at the Park Avenue Armory
To watch Satoshi Miyagi’s production of Antigone is to watch three plays at once.