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by Josh Rivers Travis Alabanza is an electrifying talent, but that’s obvious. One need only glance in their direction to see pulsing from them the potential and possibility of art manifesting in its purest, most acute form. To sit in their glow is to be enthralled, enchanted, mesmerised. Travis is a performance artist, poet and […]

The fallout from allegations that Andy Rubin, co-founder of Android, Google’s flagship operating system, forced a woman to have oral sex with him in a hotel room continues. According to The Verge, Rubin received a compensatory package from Google worth about $90 million, which the company was not obligated to offer to him. He also […]

Media mogul Oprah Winfrey came to Georgia to campaign for Stacey Abrams, who could become Georgia’s first Black woman governor. Amid the close political race, concerns and allegations have been surging over voter suppression tactics being used by Abrams’ GOP opponent, Brian Kemp, to hinder Black turnout.

After the fatal shooting of 11 Jews at the Tree of Life synagogue, hundreds came together to mourn their loss. Prominent Muslim groups raised over $200,000 to cover the victims’ funeral expenses. But as the community was recouping from the loss, President Trump’s visit divided a grieving town.

By Brittany Lee Frederick At a rally in Anaheim, California in September of this year Barack Obama was quoted saying, “If you vote, things will get better, it will be a start.” This echoes the mainstream Democrats insistence upon voting for a Blue Wave to create social change next week. While this article isn’t one […]

I don’t know for sure if my family knows I’m not straight, and yet I suspect they somehow knew before I did. My family, who policed my lack of femininity growing up, and punished me for being a Tomboy. Who teased me for being a “Plain Jane.” Who asked for years when I was going […]

In the same week which has seen the attempted mail bombing of prominent Democrats including Barack Obama and Maxine Waters and the shooting of two Black customers at a Louisville Kroger, there has been yet another attack by an alleged white supremacist. This time the target was a Jewish synagogue and community in Pittsburgh.

by JaLoni Amor Owens For many Americans, one of the only days that left the nation feeling as hopeless and defeated as it did on November 8, 2016 was the day after. Those on the left, whether or not Secretary Clinton was their first choice for President of the United States and whether or not […]

One day after the Saudi government denied killing U.S. based Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who had been critical of it, the New York Times is reporting that they are now calling the murder of Khashoggi premeditated, as the Turkish government had already been claiming. This represents the latest in a shifting story weaved by […]

After a 40-year imprisonment for being a member of the Black liberation organization, MOVE, Michael Africa Sr. has finally been released on parole.

By Brittany Willis It took me seven years of teaching before I had the opportunity to work in a school where the student and staff population were both majority Black. I don’t mean “majority” as in just over half—no, literally everybody was Black except two white staff members and three Latinx children who were siblings. […]

The Trump administration released a report early Tuesday morning entitled “The Opportunity Costs of Socialism” which attempted to establish that Socialism as a terrible idea, but makes a concession that modern Socialists “denounce state brutality and would allow individuals to privately own the means of production in many industries.” The document is confusing and ultimately […]