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American history classes are actually worsening kids’ understanding of America
In the year 1995, University of Vermont sociologist and historian James W. Loewen published a book titled Lies My Teacher Told Me which was designed to both criticize the history classes in America and serve as a history text itself. A result of Loewen’s critical analysis of a dozen history textbooks, the book found that […]
We need to challenge fat antagonism in Black activist spaces
by Denarii Grace “I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.” These words, uttered by legendary Black civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer, have become as much a part of Black languages and cultural understandings, both past and present, as “lit,” “bumboclaat,” and “the bomb.” Her expression of the ongoing oppression of Black […]
The 2018 Black Muslim Psychology Conference is coming to Philadelphia!
The Black Muslim Psychology Conference (BMPC) will commence at the Chubb Hotel and Conference Center in Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania this July 20-22. Hosted by the Muslim Wellness Foundation and embarking on its 4th year, the 2018 BMPC is titled “Love & Liberation: Lessons on Sex, Intimacy, Marriage & Family”.
Poet Simone John talks her book ‘Testify’ and Sandra Bland’s legacy on the anniversary of her death in AAIHS interview
As part of their continuing coverage on the life and impact of Sandra Bland, the activist who was pulled over and aggressively arrested following a broken taillight in 2015 then found dead in the Waller County Jail less than a week later, AAIHS (African American Intellectual Historical Society) interviewed poet Simone John. John is a […]
Revisiting ‘Rated R’ and Rihanna’s narrative of a Black woman’s experience with trauma
by Ayika Tshimanga Before Robyn Rihanna Fenty released her commercially successful project that is popularly regarded as her best work to date, ANTI (2016), she produced an underrated gem that would lay the groundwork for ANTI to exist, Rated R. At the time of Rated R’s release, Rihanna was widely regarded–and arguably may still be […]
NYC performer welcomes a world without anti-Blackness in “immersive abolitionist fairy-tale,” ‘Neptune’
This month, artist and poet Timothy DuWhite will be debuting the world premiere of his play Neptune, a creative performance piece exploring the possibility of a world without white supremacy and queer-antagonism.
Black witnessing is an insistence on Black being: Re-membering those who were lynched
by Tabias Olajuawon This essay contains discussion of anti-Black violences, particularly lynching, and mention of r/pe “… Ancestors, you will find us still in cages, Despised and disciplined. You will find us still mis-named. Here you will find us despite. You will not find us extinct. You will find us […]
Learning to love my androgynous and masculine Black womanhood
I have always wanted to be strong. Not strong as in a Strong Black Woman™—an expectation of impossible emotional and spiritual fortitude against a world imbued with misogynoir. Strong as in twenty three-time Grand Slam Champion Serena Williams. Powerful as in Olympic Shot Putter and gold medalist Michelle Carter. Formidable as in the Dora Milaje […]
Learning when to cut off toxic marginalized people is imperative to Black mental health
The ways I have been hurt by white supremacy are enumerable. Its narcissism and dehumanization cut into me, day by day, like a thousand teeth in my flesh. The anti-Blackness that white supremacy permits, condones, and sustains itself through—whether it be subtle, benevolent, microaggressive, or institutionally and blatantly on display—hurts. Constantly. For me, this has […]
Xenophobic border patrol agent detains two women after hearing them speak Spanish
A Montana border patrol agent detained and questioned two American citizens after he merely overheard them speaking to each other in Spanish at a gas station. Early Wednesday morning, the two women, Ana Suda and Mimi Hernandez, were making a midnight trip to a convenience store near the Montana border to Canada in Havre when […]
Review Roundup: Zora Neale Hurston’s book on one of the last Africans in the Atlantic slave trade
Nearly 90 years after it was first written, Zora Neale Hurston’s series of interviews with one of the last Africans brought to America from the Atlantic slave trade has arrived in bookstores across the country. Barracoon is introduced rather fittingly by Alice Walker, the woman whom we can thank for a revitalized interest and scholarship […]
Janelle Monáe and the road to ‘Dirty Computer’
by Victoria Collins Though she was absent of critical acclaim in the very beginning, Janelle Monáe set in motion the narrative of a dystopian reality that would serve as the backdrop for a decade-long narrative of freedom, love, and acceptance with her 2003 self-released album, The Audition. In 2007, she followed her debut album with […]