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Comic: Sex Education utterly failed you and that’s not our fault

Being a Black educator doesn’t mean you aren’t teaching anti-Blackness

100 years after Chicago’s Red Summer race riots, the lasting legacy of segregation is crystal clear

Loving trans and non-binary folks doesn’t make you a radical

Kaepernick isn’t the only reason working with the NFL is making a deal with the devil

We shouldn’t be surprised by Jay-Z’s NFL move. He’s always been a capitalist & this is what capitalism looks like

We need LGBTQ history in schools because the queerness of Black icons has always been obscured

How the Coalition to End Money Bond is working to help reform pretrial practices in Illinois

Black men – we need to take the racist online harassment of Black women more seriously

I don’t know what my grief looks like outside of social pressures to perform it in acceptable ways

The trans child in me still needs to feel wanted

Poverty appropriation & the moral depravity of a society where elite education has the highest stakes

How theology based on a “one true god” cuts Black people off from necessary indigenous practices

We can’t ignore Marrianne Williamson’s fatphobia and ableism just because she supports reparations for slavery

Black/POC mixed race folks can reverse the anti-Blackness of mixed race narratives

How my experience as a Black man working with children was tainted by racism

The white writer’s misimagination of Black characters in science fiction

When does defending one’s reputation become a ploy to avoid addressing faults?

Reclaiming memory as a Black father and son in the face of cultural and racial traumas

Used in a relentless pursuit of the elusive middle class, side hustle culture is killing Black folx

The Black body remembers our traumas even when we try to forget

White supremacy is where my PTSD and intrusive thoughts intersect

Faced with commercialization, the Black Punk community turns to its past for a guide to keep resisting

Keeping Black history will always be necessary, but it takes a toll

Comic: I’m waiting for Black conspiracy theorists to turn their attention towards cisheteropatriarchy

Feature: Grassroots organization BYP100 uses “radical inclusion” to combat racial injustice

Black women, our closeted emotional needs won’t get met

“E pluribus unum”: Federalism is a reactionary structure built on anti-Blackness

Sometimes, I give gentrifiers the wrong directions when they get lost

Don’t get too excited about tech advances. Many are designed to leave Black people behind

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