The singer’s latest performance helps expand the possibilities of what it looks like to be a black thinking person.
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The Power in Knowing: Black Women, HIV, and the Realities of Safe Sex
In the third installment of Minda Honey’s #Dating_While_Woke series, an invitation to appear in a PSA prompts her to reflect on the responsibilities of safe sex, and her imperfect past.
Posted ineducation, Highlight, Quotes, Science & Nature, Technology
The Future of Decisions
If humans can’t decide, “the future of life will be decided at random.”
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The Great Online School Scam
Students are performing worse than ever, but private companies are making millions.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
When Running Toward Yourself Looks Like Running Away
Amber Leventry recalls how getting sober forced them to confront and reveal important truths about their identity.
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On Vanishing
Dementia is a kind of erasure, a death before death, where the living discount the infirmed long before they’re gone.
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.
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You Can’t Escape Everything in the Ivory Tower
For her father, Jaclyn Gilbert is less a daughter than a debt.
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Nonfiction, Story
The Great Online School Scam
Students are performing worse than ever, but private companies are making millions.
Posted inArts & Culture, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
The World’s Tallest Dwarf
Late capitalism gets an antihero show.
