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The Case for a Black Princess Carolyn
For Princess Carolyn, the case for her identity as a Black woman offers a more nuanced lens through which to view her character.
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(Mis)measuring Intelligence: Environmental Racism Is Assaulting the Minds of People of Color
Harriet A. Washington argues that intelligence is malleable rather than fixed or inherited, and that it’s possible to solve the problem of poisons and pathogens attacking the nervous systems of people of color.
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A Depressed Black Teen Takes Center Stage in Morgan Parker’s YA Debut
“It’s unfair to make a book that is only the dark because we know that that’s just not how life happens.”
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“A Little Late with Lilly Singh” Has a Code-switching Problem
Lilly Singh is trailblazing as a South Asian woman on late night TV while also dismantling that good work by continuing to perform a Blackness that isn’t hers.
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No Good Deeds: “Succession” Rejects the Redemption Arc for Its Ruthless Characters
HBO’s hourlong drama about a Murdoch-inspired family slyly toys with Americans’ impulse to see the good in the worst people, particularly when those people are white.
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Very Online: Gina Rodriguez, Black People Deserve More Than a Notes App Apology
When celebrities want to apologize, their fans deserve more than a half-hearted screenshot from their Notes app.
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How @EmoBlackThot Infiltrated Black Women’s Safe Spaces
At times, she seemed too good to be true. And now we know she was: @EmoBlackThot was not our dark-skinned digital big sister; in fact, she wasn’t a sister at all.
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Just Look Up: Are BIPOC Birding Communities Gaining Momentum?
From books to social media to IRL meetups, and now TV, BIPOC birders are using varied mediums to get their communities outside.
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Sailing Old Seas: The Seafarers Yacht Club Has a Legacy as Old as the Ocean
Though boating seems to be a luxurious activity reserved solely for the rich, famous, and otherwise wealthy, there’s one group that has long fought this misunderstanding, specifically for Black people.
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New Canon: A Roundtable about Travel Writing without the Other
Literature about traveling and adventure has a long history of evoking an Orientalist imaginary of Asia as perpetually exotic and dominable.
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