News
Judge ignores 20 year sentencing guideline, gives former Trump chairman Manafort 4 years
On Thursday, Judge T.S. Ellis sentenced Paul Manafort, the former chairman of Donald Trump’s... more
Entertainment
R. Kelly explodes in first public interview after arrest
Gayle King, the host of the “CBS This Morning,” interviewed singer Robert Kelly on his... more
Word
“The thing about 'Us' is that... it's a rabbit hole. ”
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Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ contends with unresolved trauma, and a host of other unsettling things
The film is a study in the duality of things, from its compelling premise to its seemingly simplistic title. It's “us” as in us, as in people, as in our protagonists and the mysterious beings who uncannily resemble them. Then again, it could be “us” as in us, as in the U.S., as in America.
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Comic: No, you did not turn out “just fine”
The fact that people often say this to justify physical and emotional violence against children is enough of a red flag to let me know they most certainly did not turn out okay.
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Associating disability with weakness made it impossible to embrace my autism
By Latonya Pennington I first learned about autistic people through the teen fiction book Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde. Focusing on a group of friends at a pop culture... more
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The recent college admissions scandal is just a fraction of the rigged American Education System
They have told lie after lie of something called a meritocracy, which unravels with every story about mostly rich white people buying access to so-called elite institutions of higher education.
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Delectable Negroes: On precarity, death, and the Black queer male body
I cannot know the whole truth of what happened in Ed Buck’s home. We may never know, but in some ways the specifics are inconsequential and give way to our collective and individual imagination. Our bodies remember.
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How targeting Ilhan Omar instead of white supremacy furthered both anti-Semitism & Islamophobia
By Su’ad Abdul Khabeer, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Margari Hill, Rakel Joseph, and Asha Noor Last week, House Democrats passed a resolution condemning... more
Featured
How targeting Ilhan Omar instead of white supremacy furthered both anti-Semitism & Islamophobia
By Su’ad Abdul Khabeer, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Margari Hill, Rakel Joseph, and Asha Noor Last... more
Featured
We need to make proactive accountability regular praxis in organizing and beyond
While no one is perfect, nor is anyone expected to be, making this small shift to proactive accountability in your thinking, planning, and decisions can make all the difference.
Featured
How prison-based thinking warps a lack of empathy for “deserving” victims to harm the vulnerable
Editor’s Note: sexual violence and mention of rape I’ll admit it: I have a sort of macabre... more
Featured
Being a “chooser” in a dating field that deems Black women undesirable
When presenting myself as a dating prospect, my checklist took into account the many expectations that men place on women to be seen as attractive.
Race
Columbus activist Amber Evans is still missing over a month after her disappearance
According to NBC News, not too long after she became the Executive Director of the Juvenile Justice... more
Politics
Ilhan Omar is again being accused of anti-Semitism & her own party wants to discipline her
Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is catching more flack for comments in which she yet again questioned... more
Videos
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According to Vox, eight players from the Ole Miss men’s basketball program knelt during the national anthem in protest of a rally on campus in support of... more
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According to the Miami Herald, a 50-year-old man from Philadelphia who lives in the Florida Keys found himself on the fast track to a deportation to Jamaica, despite... more
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According to USA Today, an independent autopsy commissioned by the Bradford family shows that Emantic Bradford Jr. was shot from behind three times by police during the... more
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Border Patrol fires tear gas, chases asylum seekers and closes the border to keep them out of the US
According to Buzzfeed News, late Sunday evening, Border Patrol agents temporarily closed the San Ysidro Port of Entry, one of the most used border crossings in the... more
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The Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFK) Foundation, led by Kerry Kennedy, started a month-long mission to bail out hundreds of women and juveniles at Rikers Island.... more
Podcasts
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The new podcast 'That Black Couple' is thoughtful, introspective, and slightly ratchet. You will want to add this to your rotation.
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2 Dope Queens, the popular podcast from comedians Phoebe Robinson and Jessica Williams, is heading to HBO. Robinson shared the news in a tweet that the pair will work... more
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Bronzeville tells he story of a prosperous Black Chicago neighborhood in the 1940s.
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For black women interested in art, the opportunity to speak with like-minded peers can be few and far between. The lack of space for black women in the art world compelled Jovonna Jones and Samantha Scott to create BlacQurl, an online magazine and platform for black women and femme writers, creatives, and critics.
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"2 Dope Queens" is a new podcast that will be running through mid-June and hosted by comedians Jessica Williams and Phoebe Robinson.
News
Judge ignores 20 year sentencing guideline, gives former Trump chairman Manafort 4 years
On Thursday, Judge T.S. Ellis sentenced Paul Manafort, the former chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, to 47 months in prison for bank... more
Entertainment
Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ contends with unresolved trauma, and a host of other unsettling things
The film is a study in the duality of things, from its compelling premise to its seemingly simplistic title. It's “us” as in us, as in people, as in our protagonists and the mysterious beings who uncannily resemble them. Then again, it could be “us” as in us, as in the U.S., as in America.
Politics
How targeting Ilhan Omar instead of white supremacy furthered both anti-Semitism & Islamophobia
By Su’ad Abdul Khabeer, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Margari Hill, Rakel Joseph, and Asha Noor Last week, House Democrats passed a resolution condemning... more
Culture
Comic: No, you did not turn out “just fine”
The fact that people often say this to justify physical and emotional violence against children is enough of a red flag to let me know they most certainly did not turn out okay.
