White Olympic Figure Skater Praised For a Dangerous Backflip — That a Black Woman Was Penalized For Decades Ago
Kendrick Lamar Set the Super Bowl Halftime Show Bar, Bad Bunny Just Raised It
Professor: How Bad Bunny Became Famous By Gentrifying Black Music
Professor: Why Black People Should Skip The Super Bowl This Year
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Forget the Oscar Slap, There’s News in DC That needs Your Attention
Texts calling to overturn the presidential election, lack of call logs, and calls for recusal are all things that need our focus.
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Will Smith at the Oscars: Was He Protecting Black Women or Displaying Toxic Masculinity?
We need to examine why our only mechanism for standing up for our women is resorting to things that hurt them more.
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NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ Special Vaccination Exception for Athletes Sends The Wrong Message
NY Mayor Eric Adams’s exception for athletes and performers for the private sector COVID mandate will do more harm to the vaccination efforts than good.
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What’s In a Name? For Ketanji Brown Jackson—and Black Women Everywhere—Almost Everything
The frequent mispronunciations of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s name are a stark reminder of the ways Black women’s identity and autonomy are often disregarded.
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Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Tearful Moment Captures the Joy and Pain of Being First
Supreme Court Justice nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson met the hearings with grace and intelligence and her tears are a sign of strength.
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Texas Has a Mail-In Ballot Rejection Rate That’s Too High
The Associated Press investigation found that 23,000 mail ballots or 13% were rejected across 187 of Texas’ counties due to new restrictions.
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Trayvon Martin Should Still Be With Us
On the 10th anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s death, it’s sad to think about everything he could have been.
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Mayor Eric Adams’ Call For Diverse Newsrooms Doesn’t Entitle Him To Good Press
There is value in someone identical to you telling your story, but that shouldn’t be the only story they get to tell.
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An American Newspaper Just Admitted 185 Years of Racism
The Baltimore Sun gave us the apology we’re waiting for from the rest of American media