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Black Is The New Black 2021
The Black Vanguards Who Inspired Us In 2021
Stephanie Long
Dec 16, 2021
Book-ish
GLAAD Joins The Fight Against LGBTQ Book Bans
Stephanie Long
Dec 8, 2021
Unbothered
What We Lose When We Focus On Whiteness In Interracial Relationships
Nylah Burton
Dec 7, 2021
Book-ish
Janelle Monáe Is Writing A Short Story Collection Inspired By
Janelle Monáe is making her literary debut with The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories from Dirty Computer. Based on the Afrofuturistic world of Dirty Co
by
Stephanie Long
Unbothered
Virgil Abloh & Chadwick Boseman’s Deaths Remind Us That Black Art...
“I don’t have to do nothin’ but stay Black and die.” This oft-repeated phrase in Black communities of a certain generation tells a story of people
by
Gloria Alamrew
Unbothered
How Tulsa Is Fighting Against America’s Black Maternal Health Crisis
The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate of any developed country. And in Oklahoma, Black women account for 10% of births across the state
by
Stephanie Long
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Black Love
Eradicating Fatphobia, Embracing Radical Body Love
Award-winning journalist Sofiya Ballin explores how Black women can radically love their bodies in a world incentivized by their ability to hate it.
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Sofiya Ballin
Book-ish
Buki Papillon’s
An Ordinary Wonder
Is Anything But Ordinary
When Buki Papillon’s An Ordinary Wonder was released in September, it was met with wide acclaim — and for good reason. It’s a captivating queer comin
by
Stephanie Long
Book-ish
If We Were Different, We’d Be Perfect: An Exclusive Excerpt From ...
It’s been seven years since lauded poet Yrsa Daley-Ward shook the literary world with the book nayyirah waheed called “a symphony of breaking and mendi
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Yrsa Daley-Ward
Book-ish
Solange Joins The Black Book Revolution With Saint Heron’s Free C...
Since 2013, Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron creative studio has been a beacon of Black culture, one that has preserved our legacy while allowing today’s t
by
Stephanie Long
Unbothered
The Wellness Industry Has An Inclusivity Problem. Black Girls Hea...
When Delilah Antoinette found herself struggling with her mental health in 2017, she longed for a safe, Black space to unpack her experience. Unfortunately
by
Stephanie Long
Book-ish
We’re Raising A Fist For The Radical Hood Library, Noname’s Lates...
Last week, Noname opened the Radical Hood Library, a Black-led, Los Angeles-based literary liberation project that was created to service Black and brown p
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Stephanie Long
Book-ish
CaShawn Thompson & Lilly Workneh Are Reminding You That #BlackGir...
In 2013, CaShawn Thompson declared that Black girls are magic. Inspired by negative attention Black women were receiving in the media, the illustrious phra
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Stephanie Long
Book-ish
Hey, Hurston/Wright Foundation — What About Black Trans Lives?
Updated September 24, 2021, 4:06pm ET: In 1990, Marita Golden and Clyde McElvene created the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation as a supportive s
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R29 Unbothered
Somos Libres
My Father Was Forced to Flee His Country; That’s Exactly Why I Pr...
Like many first-generation Latinx people living in the United States, I grew up hearing stories of liberation movements, government brutality, extreme poli
by
Lola Méndez
Wellness
The Wellness Industry Has A Cultural Appropriation Problem — & It...
Almost 30 years ago, in 1995, two researchers from the University of Mississippi were granted a patent for “the use of turmeric for wound healing.” At
by
Mirel Zaman
Somos Libres
Loverbar Was A Safe Space For Queer Puerto Ricans; That’s Exactly...
"It would be irresponsible of me to call it a safe space. But I will try my fucking damnest every single day to make it as safe as possible.”
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Ana Paula Teixeira
Somos Libres
The Word “Latinx” IS A Betrayal To Latinidad. That’s Exactly The ...
Latinx is a betrayal. It’s an attack. It’s a butchering of Spanish. And that's why I use it.
by
J. A. O.
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Book-ish
Nichole Perkins Is Giving Black Women Permission To Be Perfectly ...
Nichole Perkins, a renowned pop culture commentator and former podcast host, is not afraid to dive deep. On the award-winning Thirst Aid Kit podcast, for e
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Stephanie Long
Unbothered
Everything You Need To Know About What’s Happening In Haiti...
Haiti is currently grappling with a severe humanitarian crisis after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit the Caribbean nation this past Saturday, killing at lea
by
Tayo Bero
Somos Latinx
For Women Cuban Artists, NFTs Offer A Surprising Opportunity
Earlier this spring, 24-year-old Alejandra Glez became the first — and youngest — Cuban woman artist to completely sell out an NFT drop, earning Glez j
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Maria Carla Rosal...
Unbothered
Protest Is Front & Center At The Tokyo Olympics — But For Black A...
The image of hammer thrower Gwen Berry standing on a podium with her hip cocked to the side, her body turned away from her competitors and the anthem they
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Kathleen Newman-B...
Book-ish
The Essential Role Of Indie Black Bookstores In The Fight For Lib...
During the summer of 2020, when streets were ablaze with fury and protest, and the Black community mourned George Floyd’s murder, something else was also
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Stephanie Long
Juneteeth
White Lies My Textbooks Taught Me
“I’m sick of them telling us lies, Auntie,” my 12-year-old niece Arianna said to me one day after school, fed up with what she was learning in h
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Shirley Williams
Culture
Cicadas Are Everywhere. So Are Cicada Memes.
Cicadas are a once-in-a-17-year treat for inhabitants of the eastern part of the U.S. After almost two decades of living underground, billions of cicadas p
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Michelle Santiago...
Culture
Naomi Osaka And The Necessity Of Refusal
On Monday, tennis champion Naomi Osaka announced that she was withdrawing from the French Open tournament in order to protect her mental health. Days
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Breya Johnson
Somos Latinx
Why We Need To Stop Labeling Asian-Latinx Food As “Fusion”
I’m Japanese & Uruguayan, and here's why the term "fusion" obscures the culinary stories of Asian and Latinx communities.
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Niki Nakazawa
Pride 2021
Queerness Is A Meme: Why All The Good Social Media Is Gay
If you can immediately identify what milk alternatives, eyebrow slits, astrological charts, cottagecore aesthetics, Lil Nas X’s “MONTERO (Call Me By Yo
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Lydia Wang
Asian American
I Run Tiny Gentle Asians. My Mom Has Spent Her Life Avoiding Bein...
My mother is a master of shtick. She is childlike and fit for theater, with the kind of bossy tenacity that’s practically a requisite for immigrants. Whe
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Melissa Kenny
Unbothered
One Year After #BlackoutTuesday, Have White “Allies” ...
White where we left off: looking back at the day Instagram turned black and what brands and influencers have — or haven’t — done for Black lives sinc
by
Pascale Diverlus
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