Have we entered the stage where the protest itself is the important thing, and not the underlying reasons for Kaepernick’s protest?
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About the Rocket Man
Who is The Rocket Man? President Trump? Kim Jong-un? Both?
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My DACA Story: Monica Bocanegra
DACA is vital to the survival of my family, friends, and the strangers I have met along the way. DACA gave me a voice.
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My DACA Story: Adesola Ogunleye
I came to the states legally by myself when I was between the ages of six and eight. At that time you could come to America as a minor without an adult.
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Good Girls vs. Bad Girls: The False Binary
Slowly, white people taught me that no matter what I did and how I behaved, I was never going to read “good” to them because of the deviant brown body narrative.
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The Force Awakens: Detroit
Detroit feels exhaustive and less like a serious hunt for racial justice, but a bloody, cartoonish take on Algiers.
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Immaturity & Dating: Jay Z’s 4:44 and John Singleton’s “Baby Boy”
Why is it more important to so many girls for someone else to commit to us than it is for us to commit to ourselves?
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I Grew up in the Church and Almost Drowned in It
My heavily churched background informs everything I know today, and everything I do today has to do with my resistance in relation to this particular context.
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“Our Beautiful Statues and Monuments”: An Ode to My Grandfather’s Garden
My grandfather’s garden is a statue, a monument, and a testament to the fact that I come from a people whose audacity to survive rivals that of marble or concrete.
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