Angela Bassett's 2023 Oscars loss was not unexpected given the makeup of the Academy, and her reaction was simply human.
Will Smith should not have slapped Chris Rock. But he also shouldn’t have had to watch his wife’s illness be used to make her the butt of an ableist joke.
The nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court should have a celebration of how far America has come. Instead, it was a reminder of the expectations too many Americans have of Black women.
The situation in Chicago did not come out of nowhere. It is the result of decades of choices about who matters in the eyes of the government.
Black lives matter, even those lives that do not fit into a narrow mold of respectability, writes "Hood Feminism" author Mikki Kendall.
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In her new book Hood Feminism, Mikki Kendall argues that mainstream feminism focuses on increasing privilege rather than addressing basic needs.
Why I started the hashtag #HistoricPOC: to prove that people of color are part of the past
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