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'White Civil Rights' Aren’t a Thing: Why Black People Are Protesting Unite the Right 2
On Aug. 12, white nationalists, fascists and their sympathizers will descend on Washington, D.C., for a “white civil rights” rally intended to terrorize black and brown residents. This rally is coming from the same white nationalists responsible for the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., where Heather Heyer was killed and dozens of…
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Young M.A.: The Most Visible Black Queer Woman in Hip-Hop Is a Misogynist
Young M.A., a gritty rap phenom who channeled the swagger of Brooklyn and the heart of ’90s East Coast hip-hop, slid onto radio airwaves across the nation in the throes of Drake’s Summer Sixteen Tour. “Ooouuu,” her viral single, is the first mainstream hip-hop record by an out, masculine-presenting lesbian that contains explicit affirmations of…
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White Feminists Gotta Go: Amy Schumer's White Woman Foolishness
White feminists gotta go. This age-old adage was affirmed Sunday when the painstakingly pale Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn desecrated timelines and Tidal subscriptions everywhere with their sub-basic brand of white feminism. In a poorly executed attempt at parodying Beyoncé’s pro-black anthem “Formation,” the CultureVultureTwins™ and their black friend dressed up in dirty T-shirts, bulletproof vests…
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13th and the Invisibleness of Black Women
Acclaimed filmmaker Ava DuVernay’s documentary 13th was released on Netflix last week. Masterfully produced and directed by DuVernay, it is a poignant documentary detailing white America’s continual, desperate and ever-changing attempts to maintain racial and legal domination over black people. What has emerged as common knowledge through the Movement for Black Lives is laid out clearly and…
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Georgetown University’s ‘Reparations’ Plan Is Worthless White Guilt Repackaged as Justice
Georgetown University owes the descendants of the enslaved Africans who built and sustained its institution all of its $1.5 billion endowment—and then some. On Sept. 1 the university formally announced plans to grapple with its history of being founded by slave owners and financed by slave labor, including the sale of 272 enslaved people in…
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Brittney Griner, Glory Johnson and How We Ignore Domestic Violence in the LGBTQ Community
I have followed WNBA phenom Brittney Griner’s career since she was in high school. As a black, queer, femme girl, I was deeply drawn to the way she moved across the court with equal parts deft self-assurance and deadly skill. Her sartorial swagger was, and still is, beautiful to witness, and while I—and all of…
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An Open Letter to Roland Martin About Gay Slurs
In a blog entry at GLAAD, Morgan State University student Samantha Master blasts CNN political analyst Roland Martin for what she considers to be his homophobic Twitter rant about British soccer player David Beckham’s H&M-underwear commercial that aired during the Super Bowl. She says that homophobic and transphobic verbiage is not funny. Ever. I am…
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