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Administration rebukes UNC protesters who toppled notorious confederate statue to the ground
On the night of August the 20th, protesters knocked down a controversial Confederate statue, “Silent Sam,” at the University of North Carolina. This incident is the latest in the national conversation on the removal of racist symbols, such as Confederate statues, from public spaces.
We need solidarity across the Diaspora in challenging anti-Blackness in the Dominican Republic
by Kleaver Cruz, Amarilys Estrella, and Yanilda Gonzalez The Dominican Day Parade will be held in New York City today, as it has been every year since 1982. As we gather to celebrate our Dominican heritage, we are also thinking of the oppressive systems present in the Dominican Republic. We believe that looking at these systems […]
Nancy Pelosi, Democrats turn on Maxine Waters following her appeal to publicly shame Trump administration
Following her excitement over White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ unceremonious exit from a Virginia Red Hen restaurant, Maxine Waters called for everyday citizens to resist the bigotry of the Trump administration by making officials uncomfortable in public. This did not go over well with many high ranking members of the Democratic Party, including […]
My mother, my Black feminist role model, is more than her motherhood
by Kathleen Anaza I feel a sense of healing and reconciliation when I consider Halimat’s life outside of being my mother. My own navigations of womanhood help me contextualize her as a nuanced and fascinating individual I can relate to. Positioning her as a peer, makes it difficult to be the hypercritical daughter I’ve at […]
Black boy gone: Why this former minister left the church behind
By Verdell Wright I used to be a minister. I preached the goodness of God every day. But after deep reflection and honesty, I decided this Black boy had to go. I had to leave the Christian faith, as well as any belief in the supernatural, behind. I was headed toward this point for a […]
UT Austin ‘Restrictive Masculinity’ program under pressure by administration after right-wing criticism
The University of Texas at Austin is attempting to address the limiting nature of the societal construct of masculinity. The University of Texas’ Counseling and Mental Health Center is collaborating with the Voices Against Violence initiative to create campus-wide dialogue about how to create a more healthy version of masculinity. According to their website, “MasculinUT […]
First Guantanamo detainee transfer under Trump administration expected soon
The Pentagon recently announced plans to transfer the first detainee from Guantanamo Bay, the American detention center in Cuba, since Donald Trump assumed the presidency. Ahmed al-Darbi, a Saudi national, is that detainee. In 2014, al-Darbi, pleaded guilty to charges connected with facilitating a 2002 Al-Qaeda attack on a French oil tanker. He was required to […]
Israel’s nativist right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces calls for corruption charges from state police
Our favorite war criminal, Benjamin Netanyahu is facing calls to be indicted on corruption charges from his own state police stemming from two years-long cases of bribery and one case of fraud and breach of trust involving newspaper publisher Arnon Moses, Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan, and Australian billionaire James Packer. The Israeli police claim that […]
Woman convicted of murder for administering black market butt injections dies in prison
Art and life reflect mutuality. Tracy Lynn Garner, a woman convicted of depraved heart murder for administering buttocks implants to a Georgia woman, has also died. Garner was 58 and had not yet served four years of her life sentence. This scenario parallels a story-line in Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It reboot. There, a […]
Australian prime minister pulls a Trump and attacks African immigrants, but Afro-Australians are not having it
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull recently made waves by suggesting that “gang violence and lawlessness” threatened to take over the Australian state of Victoria. These comments were echoed by Peter Dutton, the home affairs minister who blamed the lack of attention on the alleged crime wave supposedly led by African gangs on “political correctness.” These […]
Omarosa exit leaves Trump administration without a “token” Black diversity marker
Omarosa Manigault Newman was dismissed on Wednesday from her post as the Director of Communications for the White House Office of Public Liason, which leaves Trump’s White House with no Black senior advisors. Although virtually no one on Trump’s staff could tell you exactly what Newman’s job description was, she clearly viewed herself as a […]
EPA administrator announces intent to change Clean Power Plan policy
The Trump administration’s special focus on backspacing President Barack Obama’s legacy continued this week when the Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt drilled into Hazard, Kentucky listeners on Monday, a vision where the “war on coal is over.” By Tuesday, Pruitt signed a rule that would signal a shift from aspirational Obama-era policy in the […]