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What Have You Done for Us Lately?
Harry Belafonte was right: Today’s young people don’t have enough interest in the issues that affect our community, Janelle Harris writes at Essence. She cites the legacy of black civil rights heroines as an example of what is possible. Rosa’s gone. Coretta’s gone. Dorothy’s gone, too. Our civil rights heroines, the rebels who dedicated their…
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Don't Get Mad If She's With a White Guy
Clutch magazine contributor Janelle Harris — who says “perpetual singleness” is rampant in her social circle — takes issue with some of the negative reactions to one friend’s interracial relationship. Of the eight of us, some have kicked around the idea of dating outside of our race. I am steadfastly in love with black men…
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Stop Apologizing, You Ain't Sorry
Insincere, politically correct apologies have to stop, Janelle Harris writes in a piece for Ebony. Let’s say, hypothetically, that you and I are sitting at adjacent tables in a nice restaurant in Philly or Charlotte or Dallas any city of your choosing … As I get up from my table to head to the ladies’…
