Police violence against Black women and girls is state-sanctioned rape culture
Chikesia Clemons was found guilty of disorderly conduct, once again showing that the criminal “justice†system is antithetical to the protection of Black women.
All your non-Black friends say “n****r” behind your back
By Kejhonti Neloms They all call you nigger behind your back. You were right when you thought you heard your boss at the Dollar Store say it. Your daughter was right when she thought she heard her teacher say it…
I don’t blame the Mexican men who robbed my white neighbor
Living while Black in the United States is living in a perpetual state of Wrong Place, Wrong Time. Unlike Peter's robbery, there is no sense to our deaths.
“I’m the only Black in the village”: Why Black Americans avoid other Black people while abroad
If your most salient connection to your experience of Blackness conjures pain, then it makes sense that you seek to find a release by distancing yourself from reminders of it.
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…
Why they shoot us at home: Black people have no “safe places”
By Teju Adisa-Farrar 22 year old Stephon Clark was killed in his grandmother’s backyard in Sacramento, California on March 19th. Two policemen shot at him 20 times, 8 of the bullets hit his body. 38 year old Marielle Franco was…
Our desire for Black representation must extend to fat women
By Brittany Let’s get one thing out of the way: I’m fat and I’m a Black woman. I’ve always been the fat girl. Growing up, I thought I was supposed to be invisible, docile and quiet. I could be good…
“Aren’t you scared?”: Moving to Africa from the white supremacist illusion of American safety
By K. Astre Almost five months ago, I got on a plane and flew to another continent to see what life looks like outside of the bell jar of unapologetic jingoism. I was tired of being erased, tired of the…
Empathy is for white kids: Keaton Jones and the Black children we ignore for white supremacists
By Arielle Iniko Newton Like everyone on my timeline, I watched the video of Keaton Jones crying on camera after having been bullied in school. But unlike everyone on my timeline, I was immediately suspicious, not empathetic. That’s because in…
The issue isn’t that the NYT humanized a Nazi, it’s that the white friends you humanize are racist too
By Arielle Iniko Newton Last week, the New York Times published Richard Fausset’s “A Voice of Hate in America’s Heartland” to claims that it was an amateurish puff piece that sought to humanize that which is inhuman. Amidst immediate backlash,…
