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At this point in the pandemic, I'm not sure if I desperately crave human interaction or if I would rather do without it for the rest of my life As

To echo @_ShamGod, non-white French people have been sounding the alarm on Macron for years. But the global media wanted to anoint him as a centrist saint, the person who

All Imma say is....There's a reason why many of these black male rappers are are popular in America's mainstream, which means they have to be appealing to white America. And

I told Dad I got a new fig tree after the whackhappy landrapers butchered our 25-year-old fig tree. My dad said whats done is done, that I'm attached to the

My latest.As America hits 200,000 deaths from coronavirus, Africa has managed to avoid the human catastrophe that everyone predicted. Yet the media continues to overlook the continent's successes with the

Finally saw "Cuties"...I find it deeply beautiful, nuanced, and about so, so, much more than what the outrage is all about. Puberty is confusing, but being a first-generation African girl

WOW. So a white Jewish woman from Kansas City has been lying her whole adult life by pretending to be black. The Truth, and the Anti-Black Violence of My Lies

That 17-year-old shooter and the Kenosha militias are precisely why the @nytimes running that Tom Cotton op-Ed promoting the use of “overwhelming force” to subdue protestors was so dangerous. Most

My latest. "Megan Thee Stallion’s plight is a reminder that when Black women scream for help and cry in pain and even show our gory wounds to the public, the

Trying to see something. During this pandemic, how many of you have an oximeter at home? Oximeters are relatively cheap devices that can measure your blood oxygen levels at home.

Black people have been wondering why white people and other non-black people have been riled so much by George Floyd's murder-- and not by videos of other police shootings. I

As the kid of immigrants, the "Karen is a racial slur" business is hilarious. My mom named me Karen (and gave my siblings' American names) partially bc she wanted us