According to Guardian, after a security guard killed a 19-year-old Black man, Pedro Gonzaga, Brazil has been faced with a series of protests in 5 of the country’s largest cities drawing comparisons to the uprising in Ferguson and other U.S. cities following the murder of Mike Brown. Gonzaga was killed by Davi AmĆ”ncio, a security […]
This essay contains discussion of the sexual exploitation of enslaved and incarcerated Afro-Latinx womxn, and mentions r/pe by Briana L. UreƱa Ravelo Like with many other seemingly promising new shows, I and so many others, especially Afro-Latinxs, were excited for the debut of Netflix’s Siempre Bruja. Even in the midst of this excitement, there was […]
I hate the word privilege. Or maybe I just hate how itās used. Niggas like to talk about privilege as if it gives a person the abilities of Domino from Deadpool 2. Yāall seen it? Zazie Beetz runs around kicking ass, and her power is that everything that can possibly turn out in her favor […]
The Department of Homeland security utilized a fake university to lure in students who were overstaying their visa deadlines.
According to Newsweek, the mother of one of the teens from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky wrote an angry e-mail to Heavy in response to their coverage of her son and his friends’ racist treatment of an Omaha Nation elder, Nathan Phillips that was caught on viral video at a protest. The mother blamed […]
Brazil has just sworn in its newest president, the far-right demagogue Jair Bolsonaro, who has promised to free Brazil of leftist āideology.” The ex-army captain ran on a platform that stressed an anti-corruption and pro-gun agenda, which served to energize Brazil’s conservative wing following four consecutive wins from the leftās Worker’s Party, much like Donald […]
According to Jacobin, protests have erupted in Hungary against the recent passage of a law allowing employers to demand up to 400 hours of overtime work, with payment delayed for up to three years. Hungary’s far-right Prime Minister Viktor Orban pushed for the law aggressively, and has sparked massive protests that have not been seen […]
by Daniel JohnsonĀ I donāt know who said it first, and I’m sure it was a Black women, but I agree with the statement that Black women do not deserve to suffer or struggle before they are honored by the Black men who claim to love them. Black women are not things that Black men […]
The Munduruku tribe stood against bulldozers, high-pressure hoses and dredges as the Brazillian government tried to poison the fish and pollute the water in a campaign to open up the Amazon to mining for alleged minerals alleged to lie beneath it. According to the New York Times, the tribe’s stand in March, which saw them […]
On Wednesday, Oct. 24th, George Alan Bush, a 51-year old white man, entered a Kroger grocery store in Louisville, Kentucky and fatally shot two Black people. He reportedly told a white bystander afterwards, “Whites don’t shoot whites.”
by Briyana D. Clarel This summer, I attended a conference for community-minded artists in New York City. Despite the conferenceās commitment to activism, days passed without any Black presenters and the few presenters of color spewed dangerous rhetoric like āWeāre all immigrantsā and āItās about class, not race.ā Of course, the Black contingent came through, […]
by Chris Saltmarch Like many of my contemporaries, I never really gave much thought to the sexual desires of women. Much of my life, when I really sit and think of it, I was totally oblivious to the needs and desires of my sexual partners. This was due in part to being raised in the […]
