While scrolling on my Facebook timeline, I came across a post that asked: \”Can Black People Be Racist?\”. I immediately took to the comments that were filled with dictionary definitions of the word \”racist\” and white people who shared stories of how they too were victims of racism by non-white people. Quite frankly, I found […]
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We have currently been quarantined for over 2 months now. A new normal has taken hold as people across the globe are connecting in ways more than ever as we practice social distancing. As a way of commemorating National Poetry Month, I want to share a poem I wrote about how I am feeling during
In an interview at the 2017 Emmy Awards, Insecure writer, creator, and lead actress Issa Rae declared that she was \”rooting for anybody black\” to take home an award that night. Her comments resonated with a wave of Black creatives who were just starting to see their work break into the mainstream of TV and
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This past January, Oprah Winfrey announced American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins to be her latest Oprah\’s Book Club pick. The book is centered on the treacherous journey a mother and her son must make across the Mexican border into the States, escaping the clutches of a drug cartel. Winfrey praised Cummins, a white woman, for
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If you are a writer, you almost never write. You experience things, things that are sad, happy, weird, funny and just plain real. However, if you are like me, you almost never open your laptop to write these experiences down. It often goes like this; you feel a spark of inspiration, you rush to your
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Raising Dion is a superhero science fiction series on Netflix created by Carol Barbee based on the 2015 comic book series and short film by Dennis Liu. The series, executively produced by Michael B. Jordan who also has a recurring role in the film as the protagonist’s deceased father, follows single mother Nicole Reese, played
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Last month at the WIRED25 Conference, Instagram CEO Adam Monsseri revealed his plan to remove the option to like content on the social media app. The plan, Monsseri argues, is an effort to make Instagram a “safe space for young people.” The drastic move seeks to lessen the pressure to create content for the sole
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It’s pretty difficult to not hear the n-word in everyday language. The colloquial “nigga” is derived from the racial slur “nigger”, the replacement of the -er and addition of the -a linguistically diminishes the magnitude of the word thereby creating a whole new meaning. This is the leading argument for young African Americans and other
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September 24, 2019 The Advisory Neighborhood Commission meeting for Ward 1D was held at 7pm in the Mount Pleasant Library on 16th Street N.W. The crowd consisted mainly of older homeowners with an attitude that can be best described as fed up. Their frustrations lied primarily on three major points; waste removal, traffic congestion, and
