With words that melt sublimely over our shared cultural experience, Solange croons an alter call.
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Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Homegoing feels like the unraveling of the chapters of my life.
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Cannibal by Safiya Sinclair
The poems move through space and time with the insight of radical black womanhood.
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Solange Knowles & the Need to Stand in Unsafe Spaces
In Knowles’ actions is a mandate to be more openly allied with and unapologetic about our blackness than we have ever been.
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Audre Lorde: An Offering During Times of Paralysis
“Apartheid U.S.A.” is eerie. Reading the essay bends time. It is 1985 and 2016 vacillating in a haze of repetition.
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Silence Is Compliance: It’s Time We Speak up About Catcalling
Catcalling is a symptom of rape culture, a culture in which violence against women is common and widely accepted.
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Black Diaspora Blues
Diaspora conversations online can go from funny to vicious real quick. They reflect a long, complicated history and the violence is the product of effective complexes between Black Africans and Black Caribbeans, Black Caribbeans and Black Americans, and Black Africans and Black Americans.
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Muhammad Ali: Destroyer of Microaggressions
Muhammad Ali loved himself, his creator, and his people like a braveheart.
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Gay for the Stay and Straight at the Gate: Women’s Jail, Sexual Fluidity, and the Five-Paragraph Essay
Once you learn about the past and present realities of women who end up in jail, you start to wonder if you, even with your education and luck, would honestly be able to make it out of such circumstances—let alone believe it was possible to do so.
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