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Civil Rights Leaders Pressure Senate Democrats Who Support the Filibuster: ‘They Are, In Effect, Supporting Racism’

If you want to know how racist the filibuster is, just know that it called me the n-word. The filibuster just made a joke about my ability to run faster and jump higher. The filibuster just asked me how long I’ve owned a Chrysler 300 knowing good and damn well I don’t have a car.…

By

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Published

March 25, 2021
News, Race Matters

China Quotes George Floyd in Report Calling Out America's Racism

The United States loves to position itself on the global stage as a bastion of freedom, justice and democracy with the authority to call out other nations for not sufficiently exhibiting those ideals. But on Wednesday, the Chinese government issued a 28-page report to the United Nations challenging America’s critique of the rising power in…

By

Ishena Robinson

Published

March 24, 2021
Politics

Surprise, Surprise: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Homeboy Was Involved in the Capitol Insurrection

In news that should be shocking to no one who’s been paying attention, it turns out that weird racists kick it both on Facebook and in real life.

By

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Published

March 24, 2021
Culture

Still Nickel and Dimed: Unpacking Tipping, Minimum Wage and the Fight for Equity

“What happened at Emancipation with…the idea of tipping being mutated from an extra bonus on top of the wage to becoming the wage itself—becoming a replacement for wages—really cannot be understood as anything other than a devaluation of Black lives and women’s work.” — Saru Jayaraman, President of One Fair Wage text If you’ve been…

By

Felice León

Published

March 24, 2021
News

Damian Williams Could Become Manhattan’s First Black U.S. Attorney

Damian Williams, a longtime New York prosecutor who currently heads the Securities and Commodities Task Force in the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York, is now being considered to lead the office. If confirmed, Williams would be the first African American to serve as Manhattan’s U.S. attorney. Senate Majority Leader Chuck…

By

Ishena Robinson

Published

March 24, 2021
Politics

Tucker Carlson Has a Crush on Barack Obama

Tucker Carlson, former President Trump’s favorite Bass boat shoe, is in love with former President Barack Obama. That can be the only explanation for his obvious obsession with a president who hasn’t been in office in years and who spends his time living his best life with his beautiful wife, Michelle. The couple stays booked…

By

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Published

March 24, 2021
Politics

Meet Kim Janey, Boston’s First Black Female Mayor

If you had Boston’s new mayor being both a woman and a person of color, please bring your Bingo card to the front so that I can call you a liar to your face. On Monday, Kim Janey took the mayoral reins from Marty Walsh, who resigned to serve as President Joe Biden’s labor secretary—and…

By

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Published

March 23, 2021
Politics

Texas Sen. John Cornyn: Why Do We Keep Treating Migrants Like Humans?

Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn is known for saying insensitive, racist-y, fucked up statements. He blamed the insurrection on the Capitol on “lax security,” called then-President Trump’s second impeachment “awfully vindictive,” “completely unnecessary” and “ill-advised,” and doesn’t believe that there is systemic racism. But his comments Monday might take the cake—all of the cakes: the…

By

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Published

March 22, 2021
Politics

The Filibuster Is White Supremacy

I do not love America. To be fair, I don’t quite know what “America” is. Is it defined by the piece of paper that once counted me as three-fifths human or a series of borders on a map? Is America defined by the laws that govern it, or is it the people governed by the…

By

Michael Harriot

Published

March 22, 2021
Politics

Black Lawmakers Rally Behind Shalanda Young to Head Office of Management and Budget

Shalanda Young is the top choice for Black lawmakers in Congress to become the next director of the Office of Management and Budget, but the White House is still weighing other names for the role. Neither the Republican nor Democratic sides of the isle have concerns over Young, but Politico reports that the Oval Office…

By

Terrell Jermaine Starr

Published

March 19, 2021