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Brooklyn White By Brooklyn White· Updated December 23, 2022
I’ve ridden and walked by a neighborhood thrift store for two years. I always told myself I’d stop by, but urgency, tiredness, or their hours of operation have kept my car tut-tutting past the building. That is, until one autumn afternoon. I walked in with no purpose, running my finger along the spines of $1 cookbooks and children’s stories.
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By Tre’vell Anderson· Updated December 19, 2022
It’s easy to assume you know Lori Harvey. Her name’s always in the headlines and on the tip of everybody’s tongue—most often in regard to the men she’s said to have dated. It’s easy, almost expected, to think you’ve got her figured out; that you know what the almost 26-year-old daughter of a noted fashionista and King of Comedy is all about. We
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By Brittnay L. Proctor, PhD· Updated December 16, 2022
Toni Cade Bambara wore many hats: documentary filmmaker, cultural worker, mentor, educator, mother, organizer and of course, writer. She dedicated her life to Black feminist world making, imagining spaces of freedom and equitable concern. Perhaps most crucially, what Bambara warned us of what we lose when we ascribe to white, patriarchal sex/gender roles.
The revolutionary function of Bambara’s work and its abolishment
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By Zenica Chatman· Updated December 13, 2022
I’m 38 years old. I missed the boat.
This is what I thought as I listened to yet another podcast about a young kid who had retired at age thirty.
Earlier that day, my boss informed me that my beloved team had been dissolved. I had been re-assigned a new workload that had previously been handled by three people.
At the time, my career
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By Jenna Caldwell· Updated December 12, 2022
“Twitter sometimes feels like the ex-boyfriend I keep going back to,” June Johnson, 39, says with a laugh. “[I] question myself why because I know that it’s not always healthy but it is entertaining.” The social media lead at Sad Girls Club, a non-profit organization that works to support and destigmatize mental health care for women of color, Johnson is concerned how Elon
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By Brooklyn White· Updated December 11, 2022
“I’m speaking about sexism and racism and I think that it’s needed,” said Dorothy Pitman Hughes, Black feminist thought leader, during a 1971 interview. Pitman Hughes was well known for her work centering children and women’s equality. She was also recognized for co-founding the Women’s Action Alliance and inspiring the launch of Ms. magazine.
A community organizer at her core, she
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By Brooklyn White· Updated December 7, 2022
Wednesday, Netflix’s live-action take on how the Addams’ family’s only daughter would fare in the modern world, is a certified hit. (As if it ever could’ve been any other way.) The actors are experiencing explosive bursts of interest in their careers, and the show is already one of streaming platform’s most popular series ever.
The earliest plotline is simple: Wednesday Addams
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By Brooklyn White· Updated November 30, 2022
The necklines of her gowns hung riskily low. Like, prudish audible gasp low. Too quick of an arm flourish would’ve placed Joyce Bryant at the center of a scandal. Maybe she knew that. She shook her curves and sang her tunes, her even-toned, tawny body always threatening to spill out of her dress.
Over 35 years before Mary J. Blige wailed Black girls’
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By Mylissa ‘Mikki’ Veal· Updated November 28, 2022
To say that Black Twitter has changed my life would be an understatement.
To the outside world, it’s a myriad of misplaced opinions and funny, screenshot-ready micro-anecdotes. For us, Black Twitter is an invaluable virtual community tied together by common threads of interests and experiences. When we got wind that Elon Musk was the new owner of Twitter, it felt like the beginning