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  • Can We Please Stop Listening to Athletes Who Talk About Race?

    My mother is blind in both eyes. When she was 19 years old, she received a cornea transplant, which restored her eyesight … kinda. Although she is still legally blind, she stubbornly refuses to allow her disability to affect her life because she doesn’t consider the small amount of eyesight she now has to be…

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    Michael Harriot

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  • No Romance Without … Resistance?

    “People have to start respecting the vagina. Until every man is fighting for our rights, we should consider stopping having sex.” —Janelle Monáe text Come again? In a recent interview with Marie Claire, singer Janelle Monáe discussed her ideas when it comes to participating in resistance. I’m not going to lie: As a hot-blooded, fully…

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    Maiysha Kai

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  • Top Model Needs to Do More Than Just Bring Tyra Banks Back

    I conducted an informal poll of trusted homies about the state of America’s Next Top Model by asking one simple question: What’s the first thing that comes to mind when I mention Top Model? Most answered “Tyra Banks,” while a few mentioned infamous phrases from the show, like, “We were rooting for you! We were…

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    Michael Arceneaux

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  • White People Are So Happy They Can Now Drink Rosé Out of a 40 Ounce This Summer

    When it comes to trolling “the blacks,” white folks collectively employ a “can’t stop, won’t stop” approach. Enter, the latest way to pour salt on our wounds and mock us: 40-ounce rosé. I know what you’re thinking if you’re a Negro: Since when is a 40 the move in the mainstream? After all, the idea…

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    Michael Arceneaux

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  • Watch: Hashtag Revolution: 16-Year-Old Girl Teaches Only Lesson You’ll Ever Need About #Melanin

    Hashtags have defined pop culture. You spot them all over social media, and now many of them have become popular phrases, especially when they highlight blackness: #BlackBoyJoy, #BlackLivesMatter, #GrowingUpBlack, and the list goes on. #Melanin is a shining example of a hashtag-turned-movement. Not only is it a fresh and delicious word to use in place…

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    Danielle Young

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  • Watch Out Loud: What Is #BlackBoyJoy and Why Do We Need It?

    I was obsessed with Chance the Rapper after watching him live his unapologetic best life at the 2016 Video Music Awards on MTV. He stuck to my rib so much, I asked my managing editor, Danielle Belton, if I could write about him. She obliged my random request. Not only did I write about Chance…

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    Danielle Young

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  • Henry Louis Gates Jr. Named Goodwill Ambassador in Global Fight for Rights of People of African Descent

    While we focus on the history and legacy of slavery in the United States, it is sometimes easy to forget that the forced deportation of people of African descent is an international, cross-cultural experience that extends across borders. On April 4, in a first-of-its-kind ceremony at Harvard University, organizations dedicated to the recognition, justice and…

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    Michael Harriot

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  • Whites Need to Understand That White Supremacy Hurts Them, Too

    Two weeks ago, I logged into my email to read a note written by the headmaster of my daughters’ school about the white supremacist terrorist who traveled to New York from Baltimore—one of the blackest cities on the East Coast—to find a black man to kill. The note said this terrorist had graduated from my…

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    Ericka Blount Danois

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  • The Top 10 Tools for Fighting Racism According to Wypipo

    Every few months for the past … oh, let’s say 450-odd years, black people in America have endured a particularly brutal but seldom-discussed form of torture. We all know about the historical travesties of slavery, Jim Crow and systemic racism, but there is another hardship that Africans in America bravely withstand every day with very…

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    Michael Harriot

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  • No, Lee Daniels, We Don’t Need Another Movie About the Down Low

    Lee Daniels recently announced the premise behind his upcoming remake of the ’80s sentimental classic Terms of Endearment. In the original, Debra Winger’s character dies of cancer, but in this filmmaker’s version, which also will feature Oprah Winfrey, one of the leads will have AIDS—a disease she contracted by having sex with a man who…

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    Kellee Terrell

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