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Germany Steps In To Save Rosa Parks’ Home From Demolition
Rosa Parks’s home has been moved to Berlin, Germany to avoid demolition.
German Soccer Team Attempts To Fight Racism With Blackface
The use of blackface – non-black people covering their faces with something to make them appear to have darker skin – is pretty much viewed as offensive across the board. Well, this is at least in the United States, where every Halloween someone gets the not-so-bright idea to cover their face in brown makeup as […]
9 Year-Old Afro-German Girl Calls Out German Newspaper for Using Racial Slurs
Ishema Kane ain’t having it. The 9-year-old Afro-German girl wrote to a German newspaper to protest their defense of using words like “Neger” and other racist terms in children’s books. Here’s a translation of her letter:
I want Black time travelers to be a threat to the status quo
This essay contains spoilers for See You Yesterday, Siempre Bruja, Mortal Kombat 11, and Kindred, as well as discussions of sexual violence and anti-Black state violence. I was eighteen, a freshman in college studying film and visual arts, and deeply interested in the history of both. A film studies professor asked the class one […]
We need LGBTQ history in schools because the queerness of Black icons has always been obscured
We’ve already been taught LGBTQ history. Unfortunately, too many of us don’t even know that we have been. We’ve already heard countless lectures about icons who happened to be queer—learned about their lives and work, read their words, recited their speeches, seen them remembered through art and poetry, and heralded them as some of the […]
Black men need space to talk about their own sexual pleasure outside of domination
Editor’s Note: This Sexual Health and Awareness month, we will be exploring related issues at BYP, and we are interested in publishing works that address these topics. What does sexual health look like outside of cishetero norms? Where does the #MeToo movement go from here? What can we do to better support survivors, including survivors […]
2020 candidates are finally talking about reparations. It’s time to deepen the debate
This post is in partnership with Scholars for Social Justice By Adom Getachew Over the last two decades, Black organizers and activists around the world have moved reparations from the margins to the center of the political agenda. Organizers with the Movement for Black Lives included reparations in their ambitious Vision for Black Lives Platform […]
Instead of dismantling male-only military draft, judge rules women should be included
On Friday, Senior Judge Gray Miller of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas ruled that a male-only military draft is unconstitutional.
How liberal discourse that distances migrants from “criminals” obscures the crimes of this anti-Black state
By “DJ Ferguson” All Star Batman and Robin: The Boy Wonder written by Frank Miller is an unholy mixture of camp and 90s grim-and-gritty/edgy for its own sake, but this interaction between Batman and Green Lantern will stick with me for the rest of my life. This story takes place not long after Batman: Year […]
Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo accused of sexual assault by two women
International soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo is the latest celebrity to be hit with sexual assault allegations in the #MeToo movement as two women came forward with their stories last week.
On embodying darkness
by Cheikh Athj |disarmament fear is many bodies. torop. allow yourself to feel them, but do not stay stuck. move past fear toward courage, knowing it comes from fear. if you fail, face fear again. without it, there would be no courage. hala: do not stay stuck. once courage is embodied, allow it to push you […]
Pope Francis summons bishops to discuss sexual abuse after global pressure builds
On Wednesday, Pope Francis summoned bishops to the Vatican City for an emergency meeting to address the worldwide clerical sexual abuse and coverups of the Catholic Church. The meeting comes on the heels of the bombshell Philadelphia investigation uncovering more than 300 clergy members accused by about 1,000 victims.