It’s not that hard to read. Here is a list of books that J. Cole should have read before he opened his fucking mouth. This essay mentions sexual assault. Jermaine Lamarr Cole is an odd nigga. A perplexing negro. A puzzling, but damning study on the complete lack of imagination, empathy, and capacity for growth...
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Black Feminist Writings Gave Me Life and Love After Death’s Touch
Black feminist writings gave me the will to live, pushed me towards collective thinking, expanded my capacity to love, and so much more. By Breya M. Johnson TW/CW: This essay contains discussions of suicide Black people are all survivors of some type of violence. I have survived many unspeakable acts of cruelty in my own...
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10 Books Black Folks Should Read Before Getting a DNA Ancestry Test
Learning more about Black history is highly necessary to understanding who we are and where we are from. DNA testing for ancestry and ethnicity is increasingly popular and a number of companies offer a careful breakdown of our lineage. Black buyers especially should prepare themselves for the truths that lie within the DNA results. This...
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Rose McGowan’s White Feminism is Rooted in a Long History of Beckery
To compare the female experience of oppression to the black experience of oppression is to ignore that there is still a population of people who experience both simultaneously. By Maryline Dossou In 1972, John Lennon and Yoko Ono release a song titled, “Woman is the Nigger of the World.” The tune, Lennon unapologetically explained, was...
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A Woman of Color Author’s 12 Favorite Novels by Other Women of Color Writers
As an avid consumer of books and especially fiction, over the years I’ve developed a special shelf of particularly beautiful and inspiring works by women of color that help me not only walk around in another woman’s experiences, but also situate my own culturally and ethnically fluid self within a canon of women writers. Being...