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  • Ferguson, Mo., Activists Are Dying and It’s Time to Ask Questions

    The most iconic photo of the Ferguson, Mo., protests, if not the entire Black Lives Matter movement, is of Edward Crawford defiantly throwing a tear gas canister back at riot police. And now he’s dead. Crawford was found shot to death Thursday night in his car, just like activist Darren Seals in 2016 and protester…

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    Jason Johnson

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  • What Can Charles Barkley Teach Us About Race? As Little as You Would Expect

    Charles Barkley is like that black uncle you find amusing but limit conversations with at family gatherings to select topics such as sports, Gap Band songs and brown liquor. When it comes to more serious matters like politics and, specifically, racial politics, the phrase “Stop, drop and roll” is an immediate survival guide to sparing…

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    Michael Arceneaux

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  • Trump Just Made the Christian Right the Most Powerful Political Group in America

    Many groups were afraid that Donald Trump’s newly signed executive order would be an attack on LGBT groups and other minorities whose lives and beliefs fall outside of traditional religious thinking. Even the ACLU exhaled when it saw the actual wording today. Although it has been lost in the butt-hurt wake of the fiasco that…

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    Michael Harriot

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  • Scandal Recap: Our Long (Fake) National Nightmare Is Finally Over

    Last week, Mellie Grant decided to put on her big-girl drawers and pick Frankie Vargas’ widow, Luna, as her vice president—Peus and Sarah be damned. At the beginning of this week’s episode, Luna is accepting the position and Team Mellie is feeling itself, until news breaks that drones are hovering over nine major cities. Peus…

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    Akilah Green

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  • Maybe Katy Perry Is Just an Asshole

    All over the internet, people have been blasting the dead-behind-the-eyes Dollar Tree version of a pop princess known as Katy Perry for the shade she threw at former President Barack Obama in a recent social media post. In an Instagram Live post last week, Perry was addressing the criticism surrounding her recent Justin Beiber-like haircut:…

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    Michael Harriot

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  • Black Star Wars Characters, Ranked

    If you are a popular athlete, have been attractive for most of your life or had a girlfriend in high school, then you probably don’t know that May 4 is Star Wars Day. Star Wars is the seminal piece of work in the nerd universe, and single-handedly created the serial Hollywood science fiction blockbuster. While…

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    Michael Harriot

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  • Joe Budden Needs to Leave Lil Yachty’s Happy Ass Alone

    Like many reading this, I didn’t know what the hell a Lil Yachty was until a younger person explained it to me. Then I listened to him and immediately went back to playing classic artists like Future and Rihanna. “No Child Left Behind” rap isn’t always my thing. However, if there is one thing I…

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    Michael Arceneaux

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  • ‘Stealthing’ Is Just Rape by a Different Name 

    Lately I have been seeing “stealthing” on my social media timelines. Intrigued, and likely against my better judgment, I searched for clearer meaning. In short, stealthing is when a man intentionally removes or damages his condom without his partner’s knowledge and/or consent. While stealthing may not be a new phenomenon, we should make no mistake…

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    Preston Mitchum

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  • There’s No Such Thing as ‘Good Police’

    In the reality-adjacent, Baltimore-centered ecosystem of The Wire, “good police” stood as the single highest honor a character could receive. It was reserved for those who possessed the inherent qualities making someone a naturally gifted police officer and who also performed those duties with integrity and verve. You had to be born “good police,” but…

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    Damon Young

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  • Black Guns Matter: My Day at the NRA Convention in the Age of Trump

    “You know that’s just a Klan rally without the hoods, right?” “Bring Kevlar.” “SMH.” None of my friends was all that hot about me going to the National Rifle Association’s convention in Atlanta this year. No one. Not even my friends who owned guns. And definitely not those who hunt, and none who otherwise support…

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    Jason Johnson

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