By Shereen Masoud What happened during the “Unite the Right” march in Charlottesville, VA in August was terrifying. A mass of extremist white men from fringe alt-right groups yelling violently — and killing a counter-protester in their midst — is…
My husband and I recently sought therapy here in Belgrade, Serbia, where we moved from Zagreb, Croatia some months ago after living there for close to three years. A point of contention in our marriage has been my desire to…
By Arielle Iniko Newton Editor’s Note: If you not Black, this conversation ain’t for you. The Movement for Black Lives is an extension of the prolonged fight for Black Liberation which began in the bellies of slave ships when captured…
By Kejhonti Neloms Flint’s water is just as poisonous to those black children living in that black community as it was 2 years ago when Barack Obama filtered the brown liquid on live television. Your ancestors deaths are just as…
By Arielle Iniko Newton Editor’s Note: This piece is specifically about interracial relationships and marriages between Black people and white partners for reasons that are the author’s own. When I was younger, I was determined to marry a white man…
*Editor's Note: Though this article places relations between Black and white people within the context of intimate partner violence (IPV) and domestic abuse, the author and editors in no way wish to minimize the experiences of people who have been…
By Chelsea Neason "Where are all the white people who want to help? You should join the front lines of protests and use your bodies to protect Black people!" I've been seeing these words in various forms for a while…
By Arielle Iniko Newton On Friday, when pictures and video of tiki torch-wielding white supremacists appeared on social media, a cadre of Black people immediately called on white allies to put their bodies on the line to stand against explicit…
By Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda Last month, yet another white man infuriated the Asian-American community by writing an article for the Wall Street Journal called “Why Anyone Can Be Chinese.” In this badly written article, author Daniel Bell makes so many false…
By Hassan Henderson There are no such things as “appropriate” responses to the violence forged against Black lives. Neither those who directly support the affairs of American imperialism nor their allies possess the moral skill-set to determine how we will…
