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Black academics need to stop reproducing anti-Black notions of exceptionalism

Black educators and administrators, let’s remember to center and uplift Black children as they return to school

‘The Sinner’ and why white killers are imagined as victims easier than the Black & killed

Comic: The education system stifles LGBTQ+ students and kids of color from the start

I keep writing about white women’s fragility and dog whistle aggression because they keep proving my point

In the age of body positivity, why is it so hard to imagine fat girls as more than sad & alone?

How schools shame poor students

The audacity of Aretha Franklin—a voice for Black liberation

Why the NYC specialized high school exam is discriminatory and must be terminated.

Blackkklansman continues the tradition of letting white women off the hook

Our hair is a map to freedom: What I learned about resistance from the “1st” free Black town in the Americas

To the friend who said I should be thankful for my online harassment while cosplaying: I ain’t thankful for shit

What I learned about the work it takes to protect children from anti-Blackness from being homeschooled

We need solidarity across the Diaspora in challenging anti-Blackness in the Dominican Republic

Our reactions to Black men embracing in public highlight Black masculinity’s dehumanizing expectations

The first ever WakandaCon offered Black sanctuary in an unexpectedly emotional experience

Why you should watch ‘Hook Ups’, a new queer, intersectional web-series about love and dating

You are worth more than what you did today despite what anti-Black capitalism says

Reclaiming my imagination: a story of a Black nerd who once hated summer reading

Imagining conversations between two legendary Black women who embodied greatness: Whitney and Serena

Beyond representation: Visibility in media won’t save us

Saying “I am not my ancestors” blatantly disrespects how they lived and died for us

The “positive outcome” of the Starbucks arrest won’t save us because it didn’t save Chikesia Clemons

I thought my transness would betray my Blackness. I was wrong.

Swiping through anti-Blackness and colorism on Tinder

We need to challenge fat antagonism in Black activist spaces

Letter to my Black mother who wants me to forgive the world when I saw it try to kill her

R. Kelly gripes about snowballing sexual abuse allegations in new 19-minute track “I Admit”

95 bodies—how sanitizing slavery keeps America’s hands clean

Buffy is Black now

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