Guest Post

UCPD’s shooting of student in mental health crisis highlights the academy’s role in police brutality

The stories of our struggles are not for white people to consume in an effort to ‘do better’

How Jay-Z & other venture capitalists are creating new problems in the name of social justice

As light-skinned people, it’s our job to make space for those silenced most by colorism

3 tips for dealing with mental health issues exacerbated by anti-Blackness on college campuses

How “Christianity is the white man’s religion” feeds the damaging disconnect between the Diaspora and Africa

For Black people who avoid mental health treatment for reasons other than our “culture” or fear of malpractice

A history of white valor: How World War II stories were made to erase violence against Africa

It’s not just straight men: We all have to reckon with internalized femmephobia in the wake of #MeToo

Reparations will never be given — it’s time we protect the everyday people who take them

The ‘Tales from the Hood’ sequel will be right on time

“I’m is talking right”: How the stigma around Black language holds us back from liberation

Let’s talk about phenotype and global Blackness

Here’s a list of 20 of the dopest Black comics set to takeover 2018. You’re welcome!

As a Black woman, I won’t say #Metoo in Rose McGowan’s* movement

An evening with Angela Davis inspired me to advocate for prison abolition for Black girls

Church makes me sick: How Black Christians are stalling Black liberation

The Black church isn’t one-dimensional either: How Gullah-Geechee people subvert Christianity to retain Black history

Black joy is resistance: Why we need a movement to balance Black triumph with trials

For Christians, Christmas shouldn’t just be a celebration, but a time to recommit to Black liberation

My Black girl magic is not the work of God

But Black women are not cocoons: I’m tired of being expected to mother Black men and applaud when they finally grow up

Luther Vandross hid for his mama: The closet is not only for the self-hating and selfish

He’s gotta stop it: A Black, polyamorous femme on the Netflix “She’s Gotta Have It” reboot

To the women who bent my reflection: How internalized misogyny creates toxic relationships among women

Passing a clean Dream Act would combat global anti-Blackness

How suffocating ideas of masculinity took the precious life of Giovanni Melton

Learning to love myself as a Black queer man in a Black Greek Letter Organization

How Tyrese used misogynoir and Black patriarchy to gain sympathy, support, and joint custody

Rediscovering the Black Girl Magic in literature that was snuffed out of my childhood

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