I’m not going to share any more photos of the sweet children in Mississippi. You can find them if you want. This is what happens when people are grabbed by immigration authorities and ICE. This is what happens when US citizens are incarcerated as a result of the war on drugs or from being the […]
Imagine you’re at home with your child enjoying summer vacation. You begin to go through your mail and notice an envelope labeled “important.” You open the envelope to see a letter stating that you owe money to a local company. As you read on, the letter explains if you do not pay the debt, your […]
Racism is not about the actions of biased white people—it’s about power and the circumstances that create and maintain that power. For example, cops aren’t more likely to threaten, abuse, and kill Black people solely out of personal bias. If it made their jobs safer, it wouldn’t matter to cops who they used violence against. […]
Every candidate backing reparations is bullshitting you. Let’s start with the first backer: Marianne Williamson proposed $100 billion in reparations to the Black community. While that sounds nice, it only amounts to $2,500 per Black person in the United States—that’s about one month’s labor at $15 an hour. That ain’t a reparations plan, it’s an “alleviate […]
Am I the only one bothered when people use the word “Nazi” to describe the current iteration of white supremacy? I ask because I’ve noticed white liberals using the term to distance themselves from the history that has brought us to this point. While it seems that the word “Nazi” seems to energize in a […]
I’ve been in sex work for six years, and the rhetoric of self-identified feminists who haven’t participated in actual sex work never ceases to amaze me. People who are not sex workers can’t decide whether they want us to be sex trafficking victims or the foundation of patriarchy. They tend to trip over themselves while […]
To my fellow POC who be on Facebook all damn day talking shit. Y’all be making statuses like, “Dark-skinned Black women to the front! Defend black women!” Or always telling other people to check their cis and/or male and/or light-skinned privileges. Or telling each other to check yourselves about the privilege of white proximity. But […]
I painted this back in 2015, in response to the news that came out about Malevich’s “Black Square.” Now often referred to as the “zero point of painting,” “Black Square” is widely considered to be an avant-grade masterpiece. In Malevich’s own words, “It is from zero, in zero, that the true movement of beings begins.” […]
Samantina Zénon is an actress and lifestyle influencer, as well as a talk show host on The African Millennials. We met on a rare night out, and I was immediately drawn to her fierce energy, genuine spirit, and critical mind. A few weeks later, over my morning coffee, I shared a phone call with her where […]
We need to put a stop to the narrative that Black folks don’t vote—like gerrymandering doesn’t exist; like Black people haven’t had our eligibility and votes canceled, purged, and otherwise thrown out, left right and center; like the burden of salvation for Black folks and the rest of this country rests on the shoulders of […]
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