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White teenagers arrested for plotting to attack Black Muslim community
Police arrested four white teenagers for an alleged plot to attack a predominately Black Muslim community, after one of them made an alarming remark to classmates.
How white narcissism affords only white people the right to fear
This essay briefly mentions sexual and reproductive violences. A group of Trump-worshipping, MAGA hat-wearing white boys from Covington Catholic High School surrounded and taunted an Indigenous elder with the racist, xenophobic, and nationalist chant, “Build the wall!” last week. But somehow the mainstream media has framed the boys as innocent victims, despite the fact that […]
Zora Neale Hurston helped create 1st mass-produced Black doll that wasn’t just a painted white one
According to Open Culture, anthropologist and celebrated writer Zora Neale Hurston helped to create the first mass-produced Black doll that wasn’t just a white doll painted brown. In the 1940’s, the now famous doll test by Kenneth and Mamie Brown was able to find that young Black children consistently picked dolls with lighter skin colors. […]
Comic: When white people can’t imagine a world without colonization
by JeCorey Holder
I’m tired of watching white men get away with sexual violence against Black men
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 […]
2nd Black gay man has died in the home of prominent liberal donor and white gay “ally” Ed Buck
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.
Organizers of California Women’s March cancel event over concerns that it’s ‘too white’
According to Newsweek, the primary organizers of a Women’s March that was to take place in Eureka, California has been cancelled due to concerns that those who would participate in the event would not accurately reflect the diversity of the community. In a statement released by the founders on Facebook, they explain that following conversations […]
It’s not just white incels. We need to talk about the Black Manosphere, too.
Mainstream conversations about online misogyny keep neglecting The Black Manosphere, and it’s because of misogynoir by Aaron Fountain On his weekly podcast, The Brother Pill, Sacramento-native and now Poland-transplant, Oshay Duke Jackson, conducts segments, interviews, and discussions about the issues faced by Black men. Occasionally, he talks about these things alone, but on most episodes […]
Britain’s non-white workers earn £3.2bn less than their white peers every year for same work
The Resolution Foundation has reported that Britain’s 1.9 million Black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) workers face a “pay penalty,” earning considerably less than their white counterparts for the same work.
The bar for white “allies” is absurdly low and I’m tired of watching them be praised for reaching it
by Tynesha M. McCullers Ellen Pompeo talked about representation in film and television in a recent interview with Porter magazine, expressing the ways she recognizes her whiteness and uses it to be an “ally” to actors of color, particularly women of color. I watched a clip of the interview and felt nothing. Unmoved, if you […]
Police charge anti-fascist protesters who were stabbed at white nationalist rally but protect the neo-Nazis
According to the Guardian, California police indicted eight anti-fascist protesters who were violently attacked at a 2016 white nationalist rally. However, law enforcement have not charged anyone for the attacks against the anti-fascists.
I need white women to leave me, my body, and my vote alone from now on
by JaLoni Amor Owens The first thing I did on the morning of November 8, 2016 was remind all of my friends back home in Massachusetts to vote, but on the morning of election day of this year, the first thing I did was groan and bury my face in my pillow. The last thing […]