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By Dominique Hazzard I am a queer black woman. By this I mean that the words to describe my sexuality exist outside the margins, between the approved boundaries, beyond the limits of most imaginations. A queer thing is a thing that existing words cannot yet adequately describe, a thing that our language and our boxes […]

From The Root: 18-year-old Cortez Bufford was on the ground, surrounded by St. Louis cops last April following a traffic stop when officer Kelli Swinton, reportedly told her fellow officers: “Hold up. Hold up, y’all. Hold up. Hold up, everybody, hold up. We’re red right now, so if you guys are worried about cameras, just […]

From The Root: Last week Drake pulled a Beyoncé and released new music without any promotion. Although the album didn’t chart as well as Beyoncé’s, If Youre Reading This Its Too Late (yes, he did not use apostrophes) was still a hit among Drake’s die-hard fans. Including Richy Huck, who decided to permanently show how much of […]

From the Guardian: Imagine being pregnant and going into labor. Now imagine having handcuffs around your wrists attached to a chain, leading to a chain wrapped around your waist. Another chain leads from your waist to your feet, where cuffs keep them only inches apart. This is a practice known as shackling. Across the United […]

By Keevin Brown Kanye West’s playful almost interruption of Beck at the Grammy’s was an homage to his actual 2009 Grammy award interruption of Country artist Taylor Swift. The irony of the situation was meant to instill humor and to some level, show a sense of growth and maturity. We as Americans supposedly live in […]

From the Guardian: The apparent lynching of a young man in the Dominican city of Santiago has reignited fears of a looming humanitarian crisis. The body of a man, apparently of Haitian descent, was found hanged from a tree in a city park, his body beaten and his hands and feet bound by rope.  Police […]

Al Sharpton doesn’t think that young people have a movement. He said as much in a recent Washington Post profile. This: “The issue with my generation is we’re more about the Occupy organizing model,” she told Sharpton now. “You know, everyone can be a leader, that kind of thing.” “I hear them saying that,” Sharpton […]

By Erika Dickerson While we were waist-deep in circular (yet necessary) conversations about Iggy Azalea’s Grammy Award nomination for Best Rap Album, her “blaccent,” and appropriation of Black music and culture at-large, the Grammy Awards were undermining Blk women in another way: the “tribute” performance for Ava DuVernay’s Selma. Let’s quickly recap the shameful dismissal that has […]

In response to the announcement that the police officer that shot and killed 40 year-old Aura Rosser would not face charges, Ann Arbor, Michigan Police Chief Seto released a statement on impending changes to officer training. Officers will undergo diversity training, including information on engaging with citizens with autism disorders. His full statement is below: […]

By Rana Zoe Mungin The key, ultimately, is to blend. Granma speaks Spanish, but she’s dark enough that no one asks, just assumes, really, that she’s the same: black, Afro American, whatever you’re willing to say. Her people are from PR, but she was born on St. Croix, the only kid with a different daddy, […]

Monica Raye Simpson, Executive Director of SisterSong, the National Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, explains why reproductive justice is a black issue.

Writer Brittany Julious believes that the return of Missy Elliot is exactly what pop needs.