Demands to “Abolish ICE” are ineffective if borders still remain
As long as there are borders to protect, there will be some sort of militarized force in place to enforce them.
As a Black woman, I refuse to reduce myself because the world finds my being offensive
By Anika Tene Rich The first time I can recall being criticized for the way I owned and operated my body around white people was when I participated in a teacher training program. I had just graduated from an HBCU,…
Palestinian Liberation cannot be achieved without abolishing anti-Blackness
That Afro-Palestinians and Black Americans also face anti-Blackness from non-Black Palestinians is a deep injustice that is deeply hypocritical.
How to derail productive Black discourse: mention white women
By JaKeen Fox May 6th 2018. The date will go down in infamy, not as the day John McCain said he wouldn’t want Donald Trump to attend his funeral. You won’t remember that in Hawaii, lava from a volcano destroyed…
The art of the drug deal: Kanye West, ‘Daytona,’ and the exploitation of addiction
By Tochi Onyebuchi It’s not the bathroom she died in. She would find that bathroom six years later in the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. She would find it after rehearsals with Brandy and Monica for Clive Davis’s pre-Grammy…
I don’t owe white people trigger warnings.
By Zaire Bidgel Portland, Oregon. The epicenter of white dreads, white fragility, and colorblindness. I was living there, working at a non-profit whose goal was to serve the houseless community while also being a place where the most marginalized could…
Carried by corpses: ‘This is America’ or the ingenuity of lynching in 10 parts
By Jonathan Moore “Is it possible to consider, let alone imagine, the agency of the performative when the black performative is inextricably linked with the specter of contented subjection, the tortuous display of the captive body, and the ravishing of…
Being nerdy, Black & male doesn’t entitle you to any woman’s attention
By Lorenzo Simpson All eyes are on Donald Glover this year, with the release of his new video “This Is America” making waves all over the internet. I blinked hard when I saw it was going to be a segment…
Looking for the dirt in ‘Dirty Computer’: Why Janelle Monae’s latest isn’t her ‘most radical & queer’
By Vernon Jordan, III I remember a time when I knew who I was, and knew who I wanted to be, without having the verbal language for it. I was three, four and five, trying to Moonwalk along with Michael…
Why did it take a man to get the public angry enough to #MuteRKelly?
By  Janelle Anise Williams Over the past few weeks R&B mogul and infamous pedophile Robert “R.†Kelly has met severe public criticism for his predatory exploits and has had to cancel multiple shows, appearances and has lost many endorsements. Spotify, Apple Music,…
