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Beauty + Style

Meghan Dumped the British Monarchy for Its Racism—the U.K.'s Former Colonies Should Do the Same

Let’s get the obvious out of the way—we know the British monarchy is a racist institution. The U.K.’s royal family owes most of its riches (which currently amounts to over $28 billion, according to Forbes) to enslaving Africans and colonizing half of the world—including my home country, Jamaica, and, at one point, the nation that…

By

Ishena Robinson

Published

March 12, 2021
News, Race Matters

Debating Whether Black People Can Be Gentrifiers Misses the Point

I don’t know my neighbors. Well, I know Asia down in 3F, and one of my best friends lives around the corner, but I don’t know this place, or the people who call it home, at least not how I want to. I moved to New York City from Cleveland 11 years ago for my…

By

Genetta M. Adams

Published

March 11, 2021
Criminal Justice, News

Rep. Ayanna Pressley Reintroduces People’s Justice Guarantee for Wide-Ranging Criminal Legal System Reform

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) on Wednesday reintroduced a resolution aimed at driving decarceration and making the criminal legal system more equitable and just. The People’s Justice Guarantee, first introduced in 2019, is being put forward again by Pressley at a time when the Democratic-led Congress seems ready to acknowledge and address the intersections of racial…

By

Ishena Robinson

Published

March 11, 2021
News, Race Matters

Tennessee Commission Votes to Remove Bust of KKK Leader Nathan Bedford Forrest From the State Capitol

Today in news that makes you go “Why did it take Black death for this to happen?” the Tennessee Historical Commission voted 25-1 to remove a bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest—the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan—from the state capitol. The Tennessean reports that the effort to remove the bust began last summer…

By

Joe Jurado

Published

March 10, 2021
Entertainment, Television

‘This Should Not Have Happened’: HBO Responds to Lovecraft Country Extra’s Claim That Her Skin Was Darkened to Fit a Role

HBO, the network behind the popular Jonathan Majors and Jurnee Smollett-Bell-led horror drama Lovecraft Country, is speaking out following a recent claim from an onset extra that her skin was darkened to fit a role. Per The Hollywood Reporter, actress Kelli Amirah posted a video to TikTok last month recalling her time as an extra…

By

Shanelle Genai

Published

March 10, 2021
Politics

Another Woman Has Accused Andrew Cuomo of Sexual Harassment, Bringing the Total to 6: Report

It’s Wednesday, so you know that means another woman has come out to accuse New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment. This now makes six women who have accused the embattled governor of being a creepy old man who has allegedly said wildly inappropriate shit, invaded personal space and reportedly tried to kiss one…

By

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Published

March 10, 2021
Beauty + Style

The Funk Boutique: Fiery Women Serving Some Fiery Things

Spring is just around the corner, so you know what that means––time for a rebirth, a redo, a refresh. And you know who will have brought us the most refreshing energy and style? None other than our very own Stacey Abrams. Now, she has been serving all the looks recently—like the iconic suit moment for…

By

Bella Morais

Published

March 9, 2021
News, Race Matters

Protesters at a North Carolina Confederate Monument Have Received KKK Flyers at Their Homes

While most of us can acknowledge the fact that this country built so many monuments to a bunch of racist losers is deeply weird, racists will simply not accept anyone questioning the necessity of their big-ass participation trophies. So much so, that a group of people who protested a Confederate monument in North Carolina have…

By

Joe Jurado

Published

March 9, 2021
Coronavirus, News

Vice President Kamala Harris Announced $250 Million Grant That Will Be Distributed Among Organizations Combating Racial Disparities in Covid Response

At this point, you’re probably tired of the phrase “Black people are disproportionately affected” when it comes to coronavirus. I know I am. Unfortunately, the last year has seen the Black community bear the brunt of the worst parts of the pandemic—be that deaths, job losses, a lack of economic relief, evictions, or the loss…

By

Joe Jurado

Published

March 9, 2021
Politics

Republicans’ Black Friend Tim Scott: 'Woke Supremacy as Bad as White Supremacy'

Not all Black people are Black folks. Black people will tell you that they are headed to the Food and Liquor Emporium. Blacks folks go to “da sto.” Black people drop by unannounced. Black folks drop “down and get their eagle on;” “that thun thun thun” and “it, like it’s hot.” Black people use cajun…

By

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Published

March 9, 2021