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The Original ‘March for Our Lives’: Alabama Children Re-Create 1963 Children’s Crusade
In March 2018, America hailed the “March for Our Lives” and the National School Walkout for the incredibly innovative idea of enlisting children to change America’s gun laws. It was a groundbreaking plan dreamed up by a group of socially conscious kids who just happened to be white. But like the Kardashians’ plastic surgeons and…
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Philosophizing With Nick Cannon
Nick Cannon may like to make people laugh, but standing up for what you believe in isn’t always funny. “When an artist or individual or an anti-authoritarian as myself chooses to say what he believes and speaks his mind, people get nervous,” Cannon told The Root. The “Fuck Him” singer has been known to speak…
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Free Thought Is for White People
I am free. I am a black man. Perhaps the biggest challenge a father raising a black child in America will ever face is conveying the difference between those two things. It is hard to explain the oxymoron of making sure a person believes that the world provides them with limitless opportunity while ensuring that…