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In a recent interview, Azealia Banks discussed her use of gay slurs. Banks, who is bisexual, doesn’t believe that she can be homophobic. “I definitely think a lot of the time with the ‘white gay media’ – especially with female artists – in order for you to seem successful or seem feminine you have to […]

  Black women in the study recalled being regularly mistaken for janitors and were constantly worried about the “angry black female” stereotype.

  A volunteer police officer has quit after a Cleveland publication exposed racist comments he made about blacks on YouTube videos. The Cleveland Scene first reported that Aaron McNamara had a position as a volunteer officer as he finished college in preparation for a full-time job with the Fairview Police Department when his comments came to light. 

The following feature originally appears on the Windy City Times. It was written by Gretchen Rachel Blickensderfer. By: Gretchen Rachel Blickensderfer     According to the most recent numbers, one in six transgender individuals report having been imprisoned at some point in their lives. The history of horrific abuses they often suffered in jail have been well-documented—trans* […]

The Following post originally appeared on Vox, and was written by German Lopez. The piece appeared under the original title, “How The Civil Rights Act of 1964 Could Protect LGBT Workers.” By: German Lopez Exactly 50 years after President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the law is being interpreted to protect […]

The following post originally appeared on thyblackman.com under the title of “Killing Daddy’s Little Girl.” By: Thy Black Man With this Article I want to address the nation-wide seriousness of the Dead Beat Father Syndrome. This is a sickness that has destroyed generation after generation of young girls without any justice being given to these children. And […]

Well ladies and gentlemen she’s done it again. Orange is the New Black star LaVerne Cox has made history by becoming to first transgender person to appear on the cover of TIME magazine. The actress and activist also sat down with TIME’s Katy Steinmetz for an in-depth interview.

“Skirts on Rappers?” “Is this the beginning of the end?” ” Get outta here with that mess!” are the typical responses to the many articles and individual posts on my friends social media networks about the demasculization of rappers concerning their wardrobe choices.

    I adore hip hop. I love it and all its complexity. Being a music artist myself, I can usually understand the push and pull of it. Hip hop is one of the anchors in the Black culture. It’s what we instantly identify with and what people can identify when they think of Black […]

By: Kai M. Green Black History month is intimately connected to the lives and stories of everyday Black people. The goal of Black History month is to validate the knowledges and stories of Black people, stories which are often erased and/or invalidated by Eurocentric accounts of history. It was a month to reeducate the country and the world […]

Many African Americans maintain the strong belief that ethnic names can have damaging affects on their lives.19-year-old Keisha Austin felt that her birthname led to countless instances of bullying. So she changed it.

I am no stranger to the ways in which even young children already become socialized into society’s boxes. But my recent experiences working in a kindergarten classroom have me directly shouldering the burden of interrupting the ideological constraints that this world traps children within. Currently in the midst of my student teaching, working with five […]