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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke at a news conference in Fall Brook, Virginia reiterating quite a few talking points of the Trump Administration relating to sanctuary cities. Sessions and his Justice Department are asking Chicago, New York, New Orleans, and Philadelphia to help deport suspected illegal immigrants or face consequences which include a loss […]

Several white men devised and carried out a plan to normalize so-called “alt-right” ideas to the public through Breitbart media, according to a long-form reported piece on BuzzFeed News. The piece chronicled e-mails showing substantial thought, collaboration and funding from largely, but not exclusively, white people on different sides of the political spectrum and their […]

By Timothy Duwhite My boyfriend wants to fuck me raw. Though he hasn’t said it yet, eventually he will. Right now, however, he is just a tapestry of hints and subtleties. He asks me if he can just put the head in. He says he just wants to loosen me before slipping on the condom. […]

“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 […]

By Benji Hart The block on Chicago’s far north side where I stay is majority Black, poor and working class. It’s also gay as hell. The matriarch of the street is a Black cis queer woman in her 50s named Ce. She lives with her wife, a Black woman in her 30s, her daughter from […]

Colin Kaepernick knelt silently, clearly explained his protests on behalf of vulnerable people, and promised to donate more than $1 million to “organizations working in oppressed communities.” Continuing his tradition of putting his money where his mouth is, Kaepernick donated $25,000 to assist young immigrants affected by President Donald Trump’s order to end Deferred Action […]

Sit. Pose. Look pretty. Keep mum about systemic racism and colonial rule. Collect your coins. Rinse. Repeat. If L’Oreal Paris’s leadership expected Black transgender model and activist Munroe Bergdorf to blindly follow brand messaging without blasting whiteness and its effects on people of color, they learned quickly Bergdorf was not going out like that. They also […]

There were no windows in the high school classroom, only unnatural lights that left your head pounding by the time the hour was over. But on this day and many others like it, my head would be left even more tense and excruciating by a fellow student whose pale skin seemed to welcome the sunless […]

Shout out to growth. Shout out to forward movement. Shout out to living my best life. But first, a little background: 2014 was one of the hardest years of my life. I lost my father. I had just given birth to my third child. After months of attempting to sell our home in southern California, […]

While top universities are removing Confederate monuments, Harvard is going one step further by owning up to its past connections to slavery. Harvard Law School has unveiled a memorial honoring the slaves whose labor built the wealth the institution was founded on, according to Harvard Law Today.

We are big fans of podcasts around here. So, we are always on the lookout for new shows from young, Black, millennial hosts. This new show, That Black Couple, wasn’t hard to find. It’s co-hosted by our Managing Editor, Jenn M. Jackson, and her partner, Daren W. Jackson. And, trust us, you’ll want to go […]

Ever since hitting the campaign trail, President* Donald Trump has cited undocumented citizens immigrating from Mexico as a major part of any problem. To remedy this, he’s threatened to build a giant wall, kick out “bad hombres” and is now looking to take away the legal residence of people who came to the U.S. with […]