By zing taiwo In college, reading the work of Black authors became a watering hole for me. I’d be huddled in the stacks of our college...
Yesterday, in awe, many of us watched recaps of Teyana Taylor’s dance performance in Kanye West’s “Fade” music video. To be sure, sis can dance....
By Aisha Jitan Everyone should be a feminist. Tell me you are a believer of justice, true freedom, A believer in fundamental human rights....
By Sally Deskins “Not Everyone Gets to Be Pretty,” a photograph of the artist donning bloody, streaky red paint and a bulbous, red-and-pink hat,...
By Jordan Prochnow This semester’s mental breakdown is upon me. The other patrons on my Regional Transportation District bus look at me briefly, my...
By Journey McAndrews ~ for all the Thelmas “Something’s, like, crossed over in me and I can’t go back. I mean I just couldn’t...
“Pocket Change” The gap between my thighs Is less than equivalent To that between our pay. ** “Caution: Hard (Hat) Area”...
In this interview with C. Nicole Mason, author of Born Bright: A Young Girl’s Journey from Nothing to Something In America (St. Martin's Press, August...
By Cherise Morris i. Perhaps this story starts in New Orleans, where I first felt the grace of place, on the corner of North Dorgenois...
By Rosalind Moran If you’re a man, woman, child, or even a bright green extraterrestrial who actually does have eyes the size of its...
By Bella Week There are about as many higher education institutions in this country as there are prisons, and all but Columbia and the University...
By Chelsey Engel Tell boys to start young Look up our skirts when we’re not paying attention And when they’re older and ask us to...
By Ibram X. Kendi In the prologue of my new book, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, I...
By Mohadesa Najumi I want to share with you my own personal theory entitled “The -1 vs. +1 value.” It is my formula to explain...
By Megan Bryde The future must no longer be determined by the past. I do not deny that the effects of the past are...
By Vilna Bashi Treitler I’m a full Professor of Sociology. Some might say I’ve “made it,” especially in a country where (according to data from the...
I am the daughter of a black Baptist preacher. I am also a black feminist scholar of Black Religion and Black Diaspora Studies. So on...
This isn’t an open letter. It’s cautionary. Warning tape surrounds this statement. Enter at your own risk.