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  by Tonya Abari Tanya Butler grew up on the backroads of a small, predominantly white Pennsylvania town. Much of her time was spent at her grandparents’ home, playing games with her younger siblings and cousins. Nights filled with shuffling and double-dealing weren’t about winning or losing–they were about learning. Games taught Butler and her […]

According to NPR, Netflix has dropped an episode of Hassan Minhaj’s show Patriot Act with Hassan Minhaj, which was critical of Saudi Arabia’s role in the death of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The episode is currently only banned in Saudi Arabia, and explores the many lies, half-truths, and contradictions given by the Saudi state government […]

The state Senate in Texas unanimously passed the Sandra Bland Act last week. The gesture was meant to show that the state was unofficially claiming responsibility in her death in a Texas county jail in 2015. However, Bland’s family has come out to criticize the bill for being a stripped version of what it once […]

Protests in Charlotte, North Carolina spilled over into another night of outrage on Wednesday after the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, who police claim was armed and not cooperating with officer’s commands. Witnesses contradict this claim, stating Scott was holding a book and waiting to pick up his children from school. 

School district administrator turned-activist-turned mayoral candidate DeRay Mckesson’s recent interview with the New York Times conveys the hope (and simultaneous frustration) behind his bid to become mayor of the beleagured city of Baltimore, Maryland. McKesson pins his dismal poll numbers on voters’ (particularly those within the city’s organizing circles) inability to conceive of someone like him […]

Comedian Tracy Morgan remained responsive but in critical condition early Monday following a deadly car wreck that left one man dead. Morgan’s publicist said he’s showing signs of improvement. 

A black woman named Sharmeka Moffitt was attacked and set on fire while on a walking trail in a city park in Winnboro, LA. Since the report surfaced, social media has been flooded with allegations that the attack was a hate crime perpetrated by the KKK.

A recent educational study found that Black and Latino students often receive less critical, overly positive feedback from teachers. By not giving minority students the contstructive criticism they need and deserve, these teachers are stifling their intellectual growth.

A Difficult Miracle: Black Poetics in a Time of Crisis  By Jari Bradley  Prior to the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, I had never been to a writer’s retreat or a poetry workshop, period. The year was 2015, a year at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, a time when the entire country felt […]

By Juahl Ganaway Zeinabu irene Davis’s 1999 film Compensation functions as both an homage to early Black cinema and a speculative intervention into its absences. Compensation refuses to let material survival determine the boundaries of Black film history. The film is told through twin narratives, one set in 1910s Chicago and the other in the […]

By: Nakia Owens Black creators have been expanding anime’s reach for years. The fandom is only now catching up. If you grew up Black and loving anime, you already know the tax. The explaining. The justifying. The convention spaces that felt like they tolerated you. The online discourse that treated your read on a character […]

On April 16, former Virginia Lt. Gov Justin Fairfax shot and killed his wife, Cerina Wanzer Fairfax before turning the gun on himself and taking his own life. In the immediate aftermath of this tragedy, there were many social media memorials, mostly from men, mostly focusing on their relationships with Justin Fairfax.  It should never […]