You cannot add a “but” onto Black Lives Matter. You can't align yourself to a multi-faceted, all-inclusive movement and still carry prejudices that put you at odds with it's leaders. You can't
This critique is not meant to discredit the experiences of the women interviewed, but to analyze the discussion and look further into the source(s) of colorism. After watching Bill Duke’s documentary
Recent film Selma, produced by Oprah Winfrey and directed by Ava DuVernay, has joined the ranks of , Cesar Chavez, and other films which downplay the role women of color played when it came to
Officials recently announced criminal charges would not be filed against a Seattle police officer who broke a woman’s eye socket while arresting her over the summer, multiple local TV stations
Black Twitter, a word started as an inside joke by the black community to describe Black twitter users, has become a buzzword in the past few years. Black twitter has shown its power over
by Gabrielle Union as as told to Abigail Pesta for Cosmopolitan A day after I got married this past August, rumors spread on the Internet that my name was on a list of more than 100 women whose
Long after Lupita Nyong’o won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in 12 Years A Slave I lay in bed awake. Although she was most deserving, past experience has taught
Often at times the discourse of black folk is reduced to narratives of Black Men; likewise the discourse of women is reduced to a narrative of white women. In both cases, the voice and
What’s worse than separately suffering racism or sexism? Probably enduring the compounded effects of both racism and sexism. On the Eve of the 50th anniversary of the historic