The first sign for Hala Khouri that something dangerous, if not exactly new, was spreading in her world of health…
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Unless you belong to an arbitrarily specific religion that prays exclusively to Gayle King and/or Oprah Winfrey,…
I don’t know a lot about white history.
“I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don’t notice it,” Shug Avery famously…
“For 400 years, we have been told that black people are a problem. We are indoctrinated into this lie from the…
As a black woman, I’m still learning to love my big tits, thick thighs, and heavy hips—but what I do know about my…
If I’m that doctor, the Hippocratic oath requires me to lie to that fucking creepy-ass, boundary-challenged parent. “Yup. Still there. Like a Capri Sun, fresh out of the carton, up in there.”
The Virginia Theological Seminary, in what is being called a first for an institution of its kind, has set aside…
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A newly uncovered speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered in 1967 sounds curiously like the civil rights icon…
A New Hampshire state legislator is under fire for insisting that “owning slaves doesn’t make you racist.” In a…
I still read to my 5th grade son at night, because it’s a good connection time for us, and I’m there to explain stuff he questions. A few months ago, we were reading “Miles Morales”, which is a novel of the Black and Puerto Rican Spiderman, and there’s a bad guy in the book, Mr. Chamberlain, who in the beginning of…
Yeah it’s a weird sort of cognitive dissonance. Not many people know the Hollywood sign is a monument to segregated neighborhoods.
Because that’s how they blame the racism on the Southerners & take the focus off of themselves California (LA & SF) have a long history of racism, & they also enforced segregation laws, only difference is they hide that part of their history of segregated restaraunts, beaches, & schools to keep Black & Brown ppl out…
The cruelty in them laughing is enraging. It’s not enough to put them on paid leave, they should be investigated to see how many children of color they have harmed and harassed. Children who are obligated by law to attend school with teachers who think murder of PoC is so funny!
Four teachers in California decided to get cute and pose with a noose. Now, their bosses will decide if they, along…
People are still being denied the chance to vote in 2018 because of the color of their skin. It never ended.
For years, Cudjo Lewis was recognized as the last survivor of the U.S. slave trade. His life’s story was told in…
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