In1965, James Baldwin, writing for theNew York Times, opined that “unless we can establish some kind of dialogue between those people who enjoy the American dream and those people who have not achieved it, we will be in terrible trouble.” In other words: Unless we figure out how…
I called my best friend Anwar in November of 2020 to deliver the news and come up with a plan. He is a fitness expert, by any measure but his most official credential is his body, near 40 and as chiseled as he’s ever been. Most of the men I…
Iwoke up at 5:30 this morning to see my favorite hellsite transmitting White supremacist trash.
Twitter Spaces was hosting a room called “Are there too many Black women in public?” The host was White. I was on the shitter. At the time I took a snapshot of the room…
This Thanksgiving, I’m thankful that three men who decided to hunt and lynch Ahmaud Arbery for the crime of jogging while Black in America can still be found guilty by a mostly White jury of their peers.
(No anti-lynching bill has been passed by Congress into federal law.…
Soit seems that most Americans would rather gargle gravy or take a can of that cranberry shit to the head than have a conversation about politics.
In a newQuinnipiac University pollreleased on Monday, 66% of adults said that they are “hoping to avoid” conversations about politics at…
Itmust be nice to know that you can carry an AR-15, shoot three people, claim self-defense, and thenbe acquitted by a nearly all-White jury of your peersthat also features“a Black, the Black, the only Black”jury member.
There’s only so much injustice any Black person living in America should be allowed to stomach on a given day. We should have even less tolerance for the apathy so many White people give to our plight. …
Five minutes of vomiting followed by another seven minutes of groaning in agony. Twelve minutes in total, sitting on my mom’s couch, as she got ready for the day ahead.
When she finally exited the bathroom, it was clear that I startled her.
“哦,杰!我不知道你…
你可以告诉一个lot about people by their priorities. Guns and climate change are two of the biggest threats children of today will face in their lifetime, yet some parents never lose a minute of sleep over such trivialities. …
Throughout他最近的采访GQ, Jeymes Samuel, director and executive producer of the new Netflix filmThe Harder They Fall, doggedly emphasized that although his first feature is a western with an all-Black cast, it’s not a Black western.
“IfRio Bravois not a White western andUnforgiven…
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