Amber Leventry recalls how getting sober forced them to confront and reveal important truths about their identity.
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Posted inArts & Culture, Culture, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Feature, Media, Nonfiction, Story
When American Media Was (Briefly) Diverse
An economic downturn in 2008 shuttered numerous publications and further marginalized people of color in an already minimally integrated industry. But in the 90’s and early-aughts, multicultural publications flourished, providing an alternative model for journalism that bears remembering.
Posted inNonfiction
On Vanishing
Dementia is a kind of erasure, a death before death, where the living discount the infirmed long before they’re gone.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
The Power in Knowing: Black Women, HIV, and the Realities of Safe Sex
An invitation to appear in a PSA prompts Minda Honey to reflect on the responsibilities of safe sex, and her imperfect past.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
The Power in Knowing: Black Women, HIV, and the Realities of Safe Sex
An invitation to appear in a PSA prompts Minda Honey to reflect on the responsibilities of safe sex, and her imperfect past.
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Nonfiction
The Great Online School Scam
Students are performing worse than ever, but private companies are making millions.
Posted inArts & Culture, Blog Post, Commentary, Culture, Current Events, Science & Nature, Unapologetic Women
Why Beyoncé Placed HBCU’s at the Center of American Life
The singer’s latest performance helps expand the possibilities of what it looks like to be a black thinking person.
Posted inCurrent Events, Highlight, Quotes
We Could Fell a Redwood Forest With This Anger
Sometimes, the only way to vent your rage so you can be a useful member of society is with an axe.
Posted ineducation, Nonfiction, Quotes
The Amateur Sleuth Who Can’t Let One Case Rest
One civilian is obsessed with investigating the eight student deaths in a 1967 fire at Cornell University.
Posted inArts & Culture, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
The World’s Tallest Dwarf
Late capitalism gets an antihero show.
