Family
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Don Lemon and the Vilification of Unwed Mothers
By Rabi’a Hakima The intersection between racism and sexism is where a brown-skinned male news anchor can, from his privileged position of maleness, propose to...
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A Letter to Huma
By Sayu Bhojwani Dear Huma, I have thought so much about why you–universally admired, strong, intelligent, beautiful, charismatic—stay with an attention-hungry, untrustworthy, arrogant husband. Like everyone...
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Carrying Trayvon’s Body: What is to be done?
By Shana Redmond To live in this world as Black people is to be confronted by the possibility of harm at every turn, to live...
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A Statement on the Reclamation of All Black Life: For Trayvon, Marissa, & Jordan
By Brothers Writing to Live We begin this collective statement by proclaiming a truth that has been rehearsed on countless occasions by many before us: The...
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“We’re” Not Raising Trayvon: The Difference Whiteness Makes
In the hours and days following the Zimmerman verdict, a kind of racial segregation has re-surfaced, not in formal, legal terms but with regard to...
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Coming Home.
By Happy Mwende Kinyili My name is Mwende and I am a woman. These identities – woman, Kamba, young, sweet – have come easy to...
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An Open Love Note to My Son: On Mourning, Love, and Black Motherhood
By Christen Smith Raising Black children – female and male – in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If...
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3 Reasons Why You Should Be Paying Attention to Moral Mondays in North Carolina
“Grotesque” is the word the New York Times used in an editorial today to describe North Carolina politics. I can think of some others. In...
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Dispatch from the 'Very House of Difference': Anti-Black Racism and the Expansion of Sexual Citizenship – OR – We Need to Do So Much Better at Loving Each Other
By Kai M. Green and Treva Ellison We (Treva and Kai) are Black, queer, trans, and anti-capitalist scholars, activists, and artists based in Los Angeles,...
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Indigenous Women: Never Idle
(Photo by Blaire Russell) Every morning this week I have woken up to my email inbox and social media feed filled with inspiring stories and...
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No “Madea” in Tyler Perry’s New Drama, “The Haves and the Have-Nots,” But Still, a Muddle of a Mess
By Lillie Anne Brown Ok, let me just start by acknowledging what I get: I get that Tyler Perry provides excellent employment opportunities for people of...
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Proximity and the Shifting Contours of Belonging
By Bo Luengsuraswat One decade is a long time. Ten years. One-zero. It’s the beginning of the next digit. A transition. One decade is a...
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Walking the Tightrope: Good Indian Girls, Race, and Bad Sexuality
By Chaya Babu I was a few weeks into my freshman year at Duke when my sister, a senior at the time, said to me,...
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Book Review: Marci Blackman's "Tradition"
By Quincy Scott Jones Town and Country: A Review of Marci Blackman’s Tradition (Water Street Press, 2013) In the most brilliant crimes stories, the detective must travel,...
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“Somebody’s Children”: A Conversation with Laura Briggs
By Kelly Sharron and Abraham Weil Laura Briggs is the chair of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. We...
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Charles Ramsey, Viral Video, and American Self-Image
Sarah Mantilla Griffin Charles Ramsey, the hero who recently rescued Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight from a decade of captivity, has become the...
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The Visits: A Love Note for Brothers Inside
By Breea C. Willingham The 5 ½ hour drive to Hunlock Creek, PA is always filled with conflicting emotions. I’m excited about seeing my brother,...
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Celebrating the Extraordinary Who Are Relegated to Ordinary: A Tribute to Rebecca White Simmons Chapman and Juanita Cranford Robinson Watson
Too often, we do not celebrate the extraordinary individuals who, because of their race, gender, and/or socio-economic standing, lived what appeared to be ordinary lives....
