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If Americans didn’t know the Holocaust was about race, they do now
Whoopi Goldberg wasn’t the only person confused.
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Americans don’t see anti-Semitism until something atrocious happens
People love dead Jews because there’s too little respect for Jewish lives in the present.
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Remembering our sister-friend bell hooks
Heartbreaking doesn’t aptly depict the enormity of her passing.
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Will Jussie Smollett’s hoax conviction affect public perception of hate crimes?
Smollett may well have suckered us all in the beginning with his hoax. However, not taking each report of a hate crime seriously would be a crime too.
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Two recent murder trials show the danger of white fragility
Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted while Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael, and William Bryan Jr. were found guilty, but the trials are merely opposite sides of the same coin.
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Celebrate Thanksgiving’s 400th anniversary with a big side of revisionist history
The Pilgrims didn’t even land at Plymouth Rock first. They landed at Provincetown, now a popular LGBTQ vacation spot.
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The Black church enabled R. Kelly’s abuse of Black girls
As R. Kelly’s album sales skyrocket following his conviction for sex trafficking, his fans – religious and secular – should be asking themselves tough questions.
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Carl Bean was “Born This Way” before Gaga was born. Now she’s carrying his legacy.
There are two types of leaders: those who are thermometers, which measure the temperature in the room and do nothing, and those who are thermostats, which change the temperature.
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The Olympics has enough things to worry about. Black hair shouldn’t be one of them.
Swim caps designed to protect Black hairstyles were banned because they don’t fit “the natural form of the head.”
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Are Black churches beginning to reckon with their embrace of homophobia?
The AME Church is planning a first among Black Christian denominations – a committee to study LGBTQ issues. Other Christians have a mandate to address their history with homophobia, too.