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Are Black Transgender Men Invisible?
Jason Hill and Luckie Fuller are both transgender men with very different experiences of coming out and transitioning. However, both men have one commonality: constantly trying to overcome the invisibility that black transgender men face. Hill and Fuller address common misconceptions and discuss how they first realized their truths. Listen to their stories in the…
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10 Things Easier to Comprehend Than Household Income of $117,000 Being Considered Low-Income in the Bay Area
We all know that the cost of living in the San Francisco Bay Area is insane. According to a report by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the median price for a single-family home in the Bay Area is $935,000. The median. Because of this high cost of living, a family earning $117,000 is…
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RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Monét X Change Spills the Tea
Growing up in the Caribbean, Monét X Change saw no LGBTQ representation. But then there was St. Lucia Carnival every summer. “There was this one tall gay dude. His name was Sharmark. He was, like, 6 feet 5 and he would be in, like, a woman’s garment. It was, like, the bra and the panties…
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A (Midwestern) Black Lesbian’s Reflections on 20 Years of Being ‘Family’
It started with a phone call to my mother one hazy June afternoon in Indiana. I called my mother every day, multiple times a day, yet this day was different—this time I was going to tell my mother that I was a lesbian. But before I could even get the words out, I started bawling;…
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Out-of-Work Vampire Sammy Sosa Tells Sports Illustrated He Can Do Whatever He Wants to His Face Because He’s Rich
Whenever I think of former major league slugger Sammy Sosa, I am reminded of old-Kanye lyrics that I always adapt to include the now light-skinned ex-baseball player: I got a dark-skinned girl look like Sammy SosaI got a light-skinned girl look like Sammy Sosa Somewhere after Sosa’s retirement from baseball, images of the player in…
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So It Turns Out ‘Electric Boogie,’ the Song Your Mama ’nem Electric Slide To, Is About a Vibrator. Life Is Different Now
If you’ve been to a black celebration of any sort, you have either done or watched other people do the Electric Slide. It’s a staple in the black community and each generation passes down the routine, ensuring its survival. Where there are black people, there are electric sliders. Real talk, I didn’t even think other…
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Obama Was More Aware of Racism Than We Saw
Aide: Like Jackie Robinson, Felt He Had to Take It Obama Is Busy Organizing and Writing A High for Diversity in Local TV Newsrooms Rethinking Urged on Funding for News Diversity J-Groups Seek Access to Migrant Detention Centers ‘What’s the El Salvadoran Congress Going to Do?’ NAHJ Investigating Misconduct Allegations Magazine Targets Blacks, Latinos Who…
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Ice Cube’s Big3 Becomes 1st Pro League to Allow Athletes to Use Cannabidiol for Pain Management
It makes perfect sense that a rapper’s basketball league would be the first professional sports outfit to allow the use of cannabidiol, or CBD, for its players. I mean, there’s a long history of Mary Jane and hip-hop, and hip-hop and sports, so why not A=C: weed and sports? The New York Daily News reports…
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Ericka and Ebony: ‘Our Love Is Not Complicit in White Systems’
“I feel like people don’t hate our love. They hate who we are. I think the world hates black people,” Ericka Hart said. She and her man, Ebony Donnley, share a love that is revolutionary. “I am so used to being hated just by my very existence, that being in partnership with someone and our…