Who gets to tell stories of black trauma and how and when should they tell them?
In 2019, of the 895 spots Stuyvesant High School gave to the incoming eighth-grade class, only seven were extended to black students. The year before, only 10 black students were given spots, and the class of 2021 included only 13.
Us not only imparts an eerie warning about the repercussions of idly living a life of privilege as people suffer beneath you, but takes the warning a step further by showing what can happen when the “outsiders” the privileged are so afraid of letting in, the people who have been pushed below and ignored, finally force their way in — and do so with a vengeance.
On February 20, Smollett was charged with his first felony, for filling out a false police report, and on March 8, he was indicted on 16 counts of making false statements to the police.
Rather than follow the longstanding social script that young people should feel shame about their sex lives, Sex Education normalizes the concept of teens asking questions about their bodies and relationships.
After almost a year of unprecedented media attention on the topic of rape culture, America’s newest college students may be better armed with a clear understanding of the once-taboo topic of sexual assault than any before them.
Often considered the “swing vote” on the Supreme Court, Justice Kennedy spent his 30-year career making arguably the most bipartisan decisions in the courtroom. Democrats and progressives had come to rely on him as a key figure in the fight to protect existing abortion rights at the federal level.
The day after his “Saturday Night Live” performance, Childish Gambino released a new song titled “This Is America.” The complicated imagery of the song’s accompanying music video powerfully highlights the provocative symbolism of his lyrics, which make political statements about the role of blackness in America.
For the first time, Diaz dismantles the mask he, much like Yunior, wore for years and shows New Yorker readers a surprisingly uncensored view behind it.
I doubt that even years from now our world will be perfect, that all issues of violence will be solved. But I know I will no longer sit idly by when mass shootings kill kids. I will be able to look back and say that I did something.
Wendy Williams recently unfortunately contributed to an already prevalent culture of victim blaming and silencing women.
Winfrey recently made headlines for her incredible acceptance speech at the Golden Globes. In fact, many seemed to think the speech set the stage for the media mogul’s future presidential run.
Barack and Michelle’s chose two black artists to create their portraits for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery: Barack chose Brooklyn native Kehinde Wiley and Michelle chose Baltimore-based Amy Sherald.
Colin Kaepernick is unemployed because he decided to kneel while the national anthem played before games in protest of racial injustice, namely the string of police killings of unarmed black men, in the United States.
Joe Arpaio, according to Trump, was the one cheated and attacked by the criminal justice system — not his victims.
Black women are supposed to relate to and admire these two-dimensional characters, but in reality their lives are multi-dimensional: they’re real people who face obstacles outside of combating racism. Most black girls have gained enough life experience by adolescence to understand that “black girls are pretty, too” and “racism is wrong.” What we’re still grappling with is that being a black girl is still really hard because while we may believe those messages, the people we interact with on a daily basis don’t necessarily understand or believe those messages. And, of course, we are dealing with that racism at the same time that we deal with the everyday problems any other complicated person does.