The obsession with skin-lightening in the South Asian community is not a different problem than the attacks against Africans. Both are rooted in antiblackness.
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My tattoos are a living ribbon connecting me to a sisterhood of “bad” or non-conforming South Asian girls who negotiate the same slippery slopes of multi-cultur...
Tomi Lahren will be shielded by predictable white feminists who are pro-choice but actually kinda agree that Black Lives Matter takes it too far.
Tomi Lahren w...
The origins of whupping Black children are sinister: beating the barbarity out of black children is a trusted tool in the well-stocked arsenal of white supremac...
Whites fucking blacks didn't stop slavery. A civil war did. Whites fucking blacks didn't end Jim Crow. Exhausting court battles, boycotts, street demons...
Raising biracial or multiracial children isn’t a band-aid you can slap onto the festering wound that is racism.
Hi! It’s your local multiracial feminist here t...
In 2017, some white people still assume that the only kind of relationship that can occur between whites and people of color is one of employer to employee. Tha...
If Black Lives Matter is to mean anything, it must be that the whole range of black performativity and identities is welcomed, protected and supported.
Chy...
The fact that President Trump refuses to condemn these hate crimes across the board in a timely manner only emboldens those who have their own crimes in the wor...
So, you want to frame that picture of Mahershala but you didn’t care when Philando Castile was murdered in front of his family? You want to sleep with Trevante ...
The body positive movement has made great strides in the past 15 years, but it's still leaving lots of us behind.
A few years ago, body positivity hit the worl...
I couldn’t help feeling like the film wasn’t made for me; rather, it's for (white) spectators peeking into black culture for, perhaps, the first time.
I may be...
It is Black History Month, and we're at the midpoint! If you haven't done anything yet to celebrate, allow me to invite you to do any or all of the following:
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If Michael Jackson told Paris that she is black and counseled her to take pride in her roots, then we must take him at his word.
Paris Jackson, the 18-year-old...
The hard truth is that white people who refuse to listen to black critics are the ones setting torches to bridges of allyship and slicing apart coalitions.
Unr...
"East Indian" is a remnant of archaic geopolitical Eurocentric positioning and shouldn’t be used at all in a modern context, unless you are talking about people...
It took the jury just three hours of deliberation before reaching the decision to execute Dylann Roof. But did they make the right call?
Several weeks after a ...
What does it say when white football player John R. K. Howard gets a slap on the wrist for committing a crime that's even more horrifying than a similar offense...
by A. Big Country
You’ve probably heard about the racist stereotype of the angry black woman. In TV and film, this stereotype gets a good laugh -- at the exp...
No, the engagement of Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian does not spell doom for black love. But it's always beneficial to black people seeking intra-marriage t...
Photo by Luuk Bolding, "Nanu Oya Railway Station, Sri Lanka," via Unsplash.
There’s nothing like being from a country still suffering from the trauma and re...
Earlier this week, YouTube stars Adam Saleh and Slim Albaher were allegedly kicked off of a plane for speaking Arabic on a Delta flight from London headed to th...
Hazel Ingram, a 93-year-old elder black woman who cleans offices for a living, being chosen to cast one of the 29 Electoral College votes for New York i...
Next, the jury will reassemble in January to decide if Roof will serve life in prison or sentenced to death.
White supremacist Dylann Roof, the 22-year-old you...
by Joy Mohammed
If you think that race does not have an impact on the way that an educator teaches school children, please come on in and take a seat. I, a b...
It's so damn sad to witness the man who gave us The College Dropout fall down into this trajectory.
Early Tuesday morning, Kanye West -- after spending several...
Image by Cristian Newman/Unsplash.
“You can’t go out looking like that and not expect that people will touch you!” said the drunk woman at our local pub, an...
Image courtesy of Pretty Brown, Creative Commons license.
Quit wasting your time asking this "rich nigga" to offer social commentary about anything.
Honestly...
BET's Charged: The DA vs. Black America explores the complicated problem of the role of attorneys in deepening the crisis of mass incarceration.
Reforming the ...
In Langston Hughes’ poem, "Warning," he writes:
Negroes,
Sweet and docile,
Meek, humble, and kind:
Beware the day
They change their mind!
Wind
In the...
Natasha James, mermaid.
Contrary to what Disney says, you don’t have to be a white girl to be a mermaid or merman. Actually, one of the most important Afric...
What's to stop black bankers who, in all probability, would be as greedy for profit as any other banker, from exploiting the most vulnerable and pen...
https://youtu.be/O7VaXlMvAvk
From his distrust of "the government" to his appreciation for "curvy" (or "sturdy") women, Tom Hanks' Doug holds a lot in common w...
To most Americans, Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is the "Mexican Halloween." While this isn't the case, the vast majority of folks don't know the actu...
Students walk out of Texas State University professor John McGee's class. Photo courtesy Twitter.
For (white) students at Texas State University, the truth ab...
MTV recently launched a new video series called Beyond the Wall, and it's fantastic! The project attempts to bridge the gap between immigrants and those bor...
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by A. Big Country
Think of five women you know. Statistically speaking, one of them has been raped.
N...
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When the news surrounding the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) broke last month, it seemed everyone wanted t...
Growing up South Asian American without any representation in film, television or even mainstream books, you become an expert at seeing yourself in the stor...
Photo by Ron Cogswell. Creative commons license.
OB/GYN Tamika Cross says a Delta flight attendant refused her assistance because she didn't "fit the descript...
Playwright Calvin Ramsey will revive The Green Book in a series of works.
Playwright Calvin Ramsey calls The Green Book a "love letter" to black Americans.
M...
https://youtu.be/dgq46boeEC0
To Floyd Mayweather, the only color that matters is green -- the pigment of cold, hard cash.
Boxer Floyd "Money" Mayweather -- th...
Modern-day Taíno. Photo courtesy Lexus Whitfield.
For mainly Indigenous folks in South and North America, Columbus Day comes with a lot of trauma, grief and...
The letter Cudi published to his fans on social media about facing his mental illness has broader implications for Black America. We need to listen.
Rapper K...
It’s time to give some shine to the Latinas who are working hard for the betterment of their people and society as a whole. They refuse to be stereotyped or box...
Dear Tim Burton,
I grew up in a toxic environment from which I sought escape at every available opportunity. Because I spent my childhood growing up in A...
Photo courtesy EvelinaLaBella.
It was the early to mid '90s, in Corpus Christi, Texas. The second hometown for La Reina herself: Selena Quintanilla. I remem...
Lil' Wayne responded to a question on Fox Sports' "Skip and Shannon's Undisputed" about Colin Kaepernick protesting the national anthem, saying he believes rac...
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A constant struggle that continues to arise within Black organizations, the activist world, community spaces an...
Sharing This Video Just Reaffirms That Our Trauma is Accessible Entertainment.
CW: rape, sexual assault, misogynoir
Recently someone tagged me in a video ...
