New Report Shows Less Support for Black Nonprofits Since 2020 Racial Reckoning
The Story of How Atlanta Became ‘Black Hollywood’
Black Pastor Charged With Manslaughter After Deadly Backyard Baptism
Chick-fil-A Worker Finds $10K … And Then This Happened
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The Cakewalk: Cops, My Mental Condition and the Tradition of Police Brutality
It started with a piece of strawberry cake. During my years after high school, some of my good friends, who would later become family, opened a Caribbean restaurant on H Street N.E. in D.C. It was really a takeout place with a few places to sit, but for many of us, it was a second…
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Patrick Mahomes Can Afford Everything But Justice for Breonna Taylor After Signing Largest Contract in Sports History
One of my favorite things about being a sports head is the fellowship involved. Every time there’s a big moment, whether it’s a soul-crushing buzzer-beater or a blockbuster trade that nobody ever saw coming, I clamor for my phone to see how my homies are reacting, and after Monday’s news that the NFL’s resident demigod,…
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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
Read the full text of Frederick Douglass’ iconic speech.
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A 3 Sentence Rumination on the Washington Football Team Doing a 'Thorough' Review of the Racist Name the Owner Loves So Much (That's on the Way Out)
I never thought I’d see the day. It’s about damn time. Funny what happens when that money starts looking funny.
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'Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing' Is Coming to A Week 1 NFL Game Near You
The performative gestures from brands now trying to show that they care about Black lives—all of a sudden in 2020—have been ridiculous, hilarious, and cringe-worthy. Here’s one that fits all three descriptions perfectly. The National Football League will be playing “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” also known as the Black national anthem, at the beginning…
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America Is a Confederate Monument
I am 6. I am sad because my face is black and not striped. My sisters and I are at Kalmia Gardens, the beautiful home of Thomas Hart, who founded my hometown, Hartsville, S.C., in 1817. Every year, we visit the Kalmia Gardens Festival and every year, my mother forbids us from having the local…
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Did You Know Irregardless Is Officially a Word? Also, It ALWAYS HAS BEEN A REAL WORD. Fight Me, Bro
Aside from my personal mission to convince the planet that Mark Morrison’s “Return of the Mack” is the greatest song of all time, the only other conversation I feel super passionately about is about the fluidity of language and my distaste for the disregard for so-called “not real words” like “conversate” and “irregardless.” (For the…
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'All of These Guys Are Complicit in the Brutal Practice of Slavery': The Cast and Crew of Hamilton Have a Reckoning
The filmed version of the original Broadway hit Hamilton is coming during a timely moment—not just because we’re stuck in our homes during self-isolation amid a pandemic, but because it allows us an opportunity to revisit and reckon with the history of this nation’s founding fathers during a national uprising. So, as we watch this…
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Black Women Breaking the Silence: A Candid Conversation With the Women of HBO Max's On The Record
“It has come time that we are able to parse our fandom from our celebrity heroes apart from their very real flawed human selves if and when it calls for that. And I think that young people are closer to the idea of deconstructing celebrity culture in a way that we don’t have to have…