News that the #MeToo movement had been named Time magazine’s coveted 2017 Person of the Year confirmed a truly…
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This was excellent. I’m mixed too (Mexican/White). Usually I self-identify as mixed or Latina, often as Mexican (depending on who’s asking), but never as white. Because as I see it, white always means only white and I’m clearly not that.
This was the super red flag to me. Is Becky aware police officers are the highest demographic of domestic abusers? It’s not just that he is a racist, it’s also that he’s a controlling piece of shit who apparently throws a tantrum any time his fiancee speaks to a black man at work. Everything about this relationship is…
Editor’s note: This piece speaks from the perspective of being biracial with black and white parents. I realize that…
You can kill a revolutionary but you can’t kill a revolution.
Since I learned more about him I’ve come to believe that J. Edgar Hoover is the most evil man in 20th Century America. I go back and forth with Hoover and the cross-dressing thing because on the one hand I think it would infuriate him to be thought of that way but on the other hand it defangs a man who was one of the…
Dec. 4, 1969—48 years ago today—police officers from the Cook County, Ill., State Attorney’s Office, in collusion…
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, RIP to the fan who thought Taylor Swift was the baddest bitch of all.
“Ain’t I a woman?” Black feminist pioneer Sojourner Truth famously asked that question of an all-white audience of…
Jenny Lumet, the award-winning screenwriter behind Rachel Getting Married and The Mummy, is the latest woman to come…
I grew up in Allen County, Ohio. I lived in the county seat of Lima and attended school in the village of Elida. The…
On Sunday, Nov. 19, Charles Manson, the man who inspired a mass killing and is often referred to as “Original Recipe…
Updated Saturday, Nov. 18, 2017, 8:02 p.m. EST: Lena Dunham has issued an apology via Twitter for defending her…
For the better part of most of the time I’ve known he’s existed, Don Lemon has been a fuckboy. Or at least that’s…
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Updated Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017, 3:13 p.m. EST: Both Twitter Support and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey have responded to…
What happened to her backside? Was she in a industrial accident or something?
Americans generally get a failing grade when it comes to knowing our “patriotic songs.” I know more people who can…