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New York Knicks Center Enes Kanter skipped this week’s game in London, claiming that he could potentially be killed over his criticisms of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Kanter, who is Turkish, no longer wants to leave the United States or Canada to play basketball because of this fear, telling the New York Times, “The N.B.A. […]

by Jamila Mitchell This essay contains discussion of r/pe and sexual violence against minors. We need to talk about gay white men and how they get away with the rape and sexual violation of Black folks without society holding them accountable.   Kevin Spacey, the actor recently charged with the sexual assault of a then-under […]

By J.R. Yussuf I first heard about the gay agenda roughly 3 years ago, even though I have been a bisexual man for much longer. Apparently, the gay agenda is a mission led by the LGBTQ+ community to turn everyone gay (or trans)—especially children, who are most susceptible as they have no sense of right […]

By Kevin Clay The culture of physical and emotional abuse, blackmailing, and the intellectual sabotage of students recently uncovered at the T.M. Landry school in Louisiana by the New York Times, atop what was previously a narrative of “Black student exceptionalism,” positions the school at the nexus of much larger and pervasive problems in the way […]

A second gay Black man, 55-year old Timothy Dean, was found dead in the home of 64-year old Edward Buck, a notable Democratic donor, in as many years.

After a harrowing ordeal posted to social media, a Saudi Arabian teen, 18-year-old Rahaf Mohammad Alqun Qunun will be heading to Australia following a stay in Thailand while she flees her family. Qunun said she left her family when they were on a holiday to Kuwait, according to Sky News. The teen fled and alleged to […]

Editor’s Note: This essay contains discussions of childhood sexual violence I didn’t order that extra whiskey ginger last week. I went home when my body told me to, even though it was still early and my friends were still partying. I rested when I got sick, or as much as I possibly could without missing […]

By Salaam Green Protest birthed out of the American south often sets the pace for revolutionary and radical campaigns for justice. While I was teaching creative drama with a group of fourth graders outside of Birmingham, Alabama, a hotbed for civil rights and the home of many justice movements, an eager fourth grader asked me […]

Starting on January 1, 2019, New York City will allow all those born in the city to either change the gender they were assigned or choose the gender-neutral marker “X” on their birth certificate without a medical affidavit.

by Loni Amor This essay contains discussions of suicidal ideation. Inspired by First Fruit festivals of Southern Africa, African-American civil rights activist and academic, the extremely problematic  Dr. Maulana Ron Karenga established Kwanzaa in 1966. Deriving from the Swahili phrase “matunda ya kwanza”, which translates loosely to “first fruits of the harvest”, Kwanzaa offers Black […]

According to NPR, Netflix has dropped an episode of Hassan Minhaj’s show Patriot Act with Hassan Minhaj, which was critical of Saudi Arabia’s role in the death of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The episode is currently only banned in Saudi Arabia, and explores the many lies, half-truths, and contradictions given by the Saudi state government […]

By Tez Files Baptize me. Now that reconciliation is possible, if we’re gonna heal, let it be glorious. – Beyoncé, “Sandcastles” I must have heard Beyoncé’s “Sandcastles”a dozen times. I read all types of complexity into its lyrics. After having gone through a very difficult break-up, it was healing to sit with my emotions and […]