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black lives matter
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How to Be Anti-Racist When Everyone Is White
I’ll never forget how it felt leaving my predominantly Black school in Kenya for an overwhelmingly white one overseas. During my first few weeks, I’d furrow my brows in every…
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It’s Time to Cancel Cancel Culture
My mother often tells me about the woman who lived above her childhood apartment: She was the wife of a school principal during the Cultural Revolution in China. Once, while…
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When Riots Become Therapy
Blackness manifests in innumerable ways—we are hopeful and moved and enraged. We grow up, albeit faster than most. Still, less universal realities underpin our complexity. Following the murders of George…
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Protest Photography, Trauma Porn, and the Surveillance State
In America, the fact that we live in a surveillance state has literally become meme-able material: yes, FBI man that lurks on my computer as I type this, I’m talking…
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Knowing Your White Privilege—and Mobilizing It
I went to preschool in Bronxville, at Sarah Lawrence College’s Early Childhood Center. My two years there were the most incredible and formative to my education. Inside this building, we…
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Open Your Wallet for Black-Owned Businesses
In the wake of protests and riots for Black Lives Matter across the U.S., you might be seeing a lot of #buyblack and #blackownedbusinesses posts on your Instagram feed. Along…
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The Revolution Will Not Be Online
We have been quarantined for three months now, some of us completely isolated from our friends and family. But it wasn’t until these past few days that I felt completely…
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Why People Say ACAB
The acronym ACAB is something you might have seen this past week, whether in Instagram comments, graffiti, or protest signs. It stands for “all cops are bastards,” or, perhaps the…
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America Has Been Burning for Decades
As soon as my dad and I arrived at the Atlanta Black Lives Matter protest, a car exploded ten feet away. A half hour before, we’d watched protesters stand off…
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