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Summer Guide
10 Black Canadian Women On Why Their Joy Is Radical
Kathleen Newman-B...
Jul 1, 2020
Homepage
The Joy & Rage of Being Black In Fandom Right Now
Elizabeth de Luna
Jun 26, 2020
News
16-Year-Old Cornelius Fredericks Died At Lakeside Academy. He’s Not Their ...
Britni de la Cretaz
Jun 26, 2020
News
18-Year-Old Althea Bernstein Was Allegedly Set On Fire By Four Wh...
Althea Bernstein, an 18-year-old Black woman, was on her way to her brother’s house early Wednesday morning around 1 a.m. when she says she was attacked
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Erin Corbett
News
Three Men Have Been Indicted On Murder Charges For Killing Ahmaud...
Three white men have been indicted by a Georgia grand jury in the death of Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery. Gregory McMichael, 64; his son Travis McMichael, 34;
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Britni de la Cretaz
News
The Public Reckoning Of Elijah McClain’s Death Is Long Overdue
Law enforcement agencies in Aurora, Colorado have received a flood of emails and phone calls in recent weeks — tens of thousands, to be exact — about t
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Britni de la Cretaz
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Horoscopes
Astrology Predicted The 2020 Revolution. Here’s What’...
Historically, some of the most influential members of royalty, politicians, and public figures used professional astrologers as ways to predict what was to
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Dossé-Via
Unbothered
Why It’s So Critical To Talk To Your Family About Race
An idea we keep hearing regarding the fight for racial justice is that it’s a marathon, not a sprint. Strong white allyship requires having conversat
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Elizabeth Gulino
News
The Man Charged With Oluwatoyin Salau’s Murder Repeatedly C...
The case of 19-year-old Black Lives Matter protester Oluwatoyin “Toyin” Salau, who was killed after detailing her own sexual assault on Twitter, contin
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Sarah Midkiff
Celebrity Beauty
Why You Should Take The “Brown Girl Swap” Pledge
As people around the world take to the streets and social media to protest systemic racism, many are looking for more ways to fight inequality over the lon
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Thatiana Diaz
Living
“We Can’t Build Anti-Racism On Top Of Racism”: A Q&A With L...
Author and speaker Layla F. Saad has been spreading her message of anti-racism for years, starting in 2018, when she started a free, 28-day Instagram chall
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Elizabeth Gulino
Music
Did History White-Wash Beethoven?
Centuries after his death, not much is known about German composer Ludwig van Beethoven beyond the standard pop culture trivia — he was a musical prodigy
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Ineye Komonibo
Unbothered
How I’m Reflecting On Juneteenth Differently This Year
Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the day when the news of emancipation finally reached the last group of enslaved Black Americans in the United States,
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Asia Ewart
Unbothered
Who Will Fight For Black Women?
Four years ago, on my 20th birthday, I went out to dinner with a group of friends. It wasn’t long before one of them — a close friend — said that on
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Alyssa Ashley
Unbothered
Juneteenth Celebrates Black Liberation — The Truth Is We’re...
On June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger read “General Order No. 3” to enslaved Black Americans in Galveston, Texas. “The people of Texas a
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Danielle Cadet
Wellness
The Urgent Need For A Wellness Industry Designed For & By Black W...
Over the past few weeks, as I’ve been scrolling past both harrowing stories of Black death and uplifting images of resistance on Instagram, every now and
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Kathleen Newman-B...
News
Justice For Toyin: What We Know About Oluwatoyin Salau’s Al...
One week after being reported missing by loved ones, the body of 19-year-old activist Oluwatoyin “Toyin” Salau was discovered in Tallahassee, Florida a
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Asia Ewart
News
I Was In Lafayette Square Before President Trump’s Bible Photo-Op...
On the late afternoon of June 1, Toni Sanders headed to Lafayette Square, near the White House, with her wife and nine-year-old stepson. For days, Sanders
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Molly Longman
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Pride 2020
The Queer Black History Of Rioting
“The first Pride was a riot.” This June, the LGBTQ+ community has routinely shared those six words across social media. Activists and demonstrato
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Jonathan Borge
News
One Officer Who Killed Breonna Taylor Had Been Accused Of Sexual ...
Breonna Taylor was killed in her home by police officers serving a “no-knock warrant,” allowing them to enter her home without announcing themselves. T
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Britni de la Cretaz
Movies
HBO Max Removes
Gone With The Wind
Due To Racist Depictions
As demonstrations in support of Black Lives Matter continue and TV shows like The Bachelor are being called to increase their diversity, HBO Max is tempora
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Kathryn Lindsay
News
To My South Asian Community: It’s Time We Confront Our Anti...
“If they just stayed out of trouble, the police wouldn’t murder them.” That’s the DM I got on Facebook from an older family member after I posted a
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Selena Randhawa
Entertainment
After The Black Squares Fiasco, Will #ShareTheMicNow Be An Effect...
The winds of change have been blowing for a very long time in Hollywood, with industry professionals and fans alike voicing their concerns about the lack o
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Ineye Komonibo
Unbothered
What Black Mothers Want You To Know About George Floyd’s Death
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Molly Longman
Beauty
I’m A Black Entrepreneur Working To Keep My Husband, Childr...
Weeks after my husband's COVID-19 diagnosis, I'm now facing the compounded trauma of two viruses.
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Nyakio Grieco
Entertainment
Black Creators React To TikTok’s Apology & Share Experience...
#BlackLivesMatter has over 4.6 billion posts on TikTok. While TikTok is a Chinese import, today’s users, as well as the platform, are entirely indebt
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Michelle Santiago...
Books & Art
These Artists Are Using Art As Protest For Black Lives Matter
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Ineye Komonibo
Beauty
Sharon Chuter Wants You To Care About The Workplace Demographics ...
Update: The #PullUpOrShutUp initiative is challenging brands to share the number of Black employees currently employed at the corporate and executive level
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aimee simeon
Entertainment
Tuning In For Black Joy
Like millions of Black people around the world, I’ve spent the past few days cycling through a range of heavy emotions. Generation after generation, perp
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Ineye Komonibo
News
Police Are Beating People To The Ground To Enforce The Racist Curfew
Thousands of people across the United States continue to protest racist police killings after ten days of unrest in the streets of U.S. cities. The actions
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Erin Corbett
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