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“I can’t pretend as if this isn’t a challenging time in our country’s history. As a career journalist, I can’t pretend that I don’t see what’s happening in our world. I also can’t pretend as if the tone and behavior of this presidential administration is normal. And I certainly can’t pretend that racism and white […]

Advertisement is powerful for many reasons, including because it operates at conscious and subconscious levels. Advertisement influences everything from where we purchase our necessities to which social issues resonate with us. And in a current climate that includes historically consistent racist violence, increasing ideological tensions and mistrust of the political system, it seems that Russian […]

By Maya King For more than two centuries, religious institutions have sat at the intersection of pain and liberation within African-American communities. Churches like Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist and Atlanta’s Ebenezer exemplified this, giving birth to the people and movements that defined the Civil Rights Era while providing political capital and a sense of stability […]

“To refuse to participate in the shaping of our future is to give it up […] Each of us must find our work and do it.” — Audre Lorde I am hurting. On Saturday, as I walked through a Black gay club, a guy crossing my path grabbed between my legs. He barely reacted as […]

When I was in elementary school, one of a handful of brown faces in any given classroom at the time, Clueless hit movie theaters. My socially conscious and academic parents maintained television limitations and screened entertainment to determine age-appropriateness. When I finally saw the film, I was close to middle school age. One of my […]

Too often, in our hasty gestures of doling out ally and wokeness credits, we fail to turn a critical lens to the ways that performative activism rarely metes out actual social change. And while Colin Kaepernick’s recent activist work seems to be more than performance, recent protests on his behalf and his continued fight to […]

Chance the Rapper had already done more than most have for Chicago Public Schools when he donated $1 million for the education system that raised him—but he was far from done.

Say what you will about the pastors of megachurches – and there’s so much so say, isn’t there? – but Joel Osteen has mastered the art form. The celebrity preacher has been on television for years and amassed a local congregation in the thousands and millions of dollars for himself and his family. So what did […]

Celebrities have started to come out to offer their support to Houston residents following the flooding of Tropical Storm Harvey. One of the most notable to do so is a daughter of Houston herself – Beyoncé Knowles-Carter. 

A car plowed through a group of people close to a vigil for a transgender woman who was killed by police in St. Louis. Fortunately, no one was seriously injured during the collision outside of some scrapes and bruises. Fox2 reports that the vigil took place at Transgender Memorial Garden a day after Kiwi Herring was […]

One of the worst flooding disasters in Africa has displaced thousands of residents in Sierra Leone and brought the death toll close to 500. Flooding in the area resulted in a landslide last week when a side of Mount Sugar Loaf collapsed on Monday, according to Al Jazeera.

Steve Bannon, the former head of Breitbart news, is now also the former chief strategist of the Trump administration.