These are the Black Twitter Moments from the 2010s that we will remember for years to come for their brilliance, staying power, and cultural impact. By Clarkisha Kent and Da’Shaun Harrison 1. The Zola Story Newer Twitter denizens will hear “Zola” and assume we’re talking about the A24 film set to premiere at Sundance in...
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#JusticeForGemmelMoore: On Ed Buck and The Death of A Black Sex Worker In Hollywood
Politico Ed Buck’s obsession with fetishizing and destroying black bodies for his own pleasure is an extension of colonial imperialism. Content Warning: Detailed discussion of drug use included in author’s commentary. As I sat at the foot of my bed, my eyes scanned the bold headline which read, “Sex, Politics, Meth, and Death in West...
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Mediocrity as Violence: A Response to “In Defense of the White Male”
This op-ed is trash heaped upon a dumpster fire sparked by the normalization of alt right white supremacy and misogyny. By Samantha Isabel Wright Calero “In Defense of the White Male” by Roland Merullo belies the catastrophic and banal legacy of white men in marginalized people’s lives. It seems it would take a white...
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L. A. Activists Respond To Threats From The NRA
In response to the National Rifle Association’s recent release of a series of aggressive recruitment videos, including one that targets Women’s March Co-President Tamika Mallory, local Los Angeles organizations have released their own video demanding that the NRA remove theirs. See video here: “We know that we are not safe, but we are not scared either,” says...
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Black Women And Femmes Are Under Attack And We Need To Talk About It
We cannot be silent when the state murders our Black women and femmes with impunity. Charleena Lyles was murdered by the Seattle Police Department in front of her children in her own home while she was experiencing a mental breakdown. They knew beforehand that she had a history of mental illness and yet they still...
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Donald Trump Says Withdrawing From Paris Accord Is Good For America Because He’s In Love With Lying
The hard truth is the people who actually benefit from this decision neither work nor give a damn about a country named America. In a previous report in Wear Your Voice, we warned that Donald Trump, who, at the time, had just sent shock waves around the civilized world after winning the American presidency, would be...
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Timothy Loehmann Fired From Cleveland Police Department Over Technicality, Not Racism
Imagine an America that prioritized directly confronting its racist legacy, not devising roundabout avenues to address the problem. Timothy Loehmann, the Cleveland police officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice in November 2014, was fired by the Cleveland Police Department. Under any other circumstance, this would come as ready relief, this would be joyous...
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Black Lives Matter Just Won Sydney Peace Prize. It’s Time To Stop Calling It A Hate Group.
Awarding the founding members the Sydney Peace Prize affirms the goals and the work accomplished by BLM so far have been crucial to any modern peace-building initiative. The founders of The Black Lives Matter Movement — Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi — will be receiving the Sydney Peace Prize. Sydney, as in Sydney,...
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How Malcolm X Prepared Us For a Trump Presidency
Guessing how Malcolm X would respond to current events can be a slippery slope, but it’s safe to say that he would not have been surprised by Trump’s election. For many, the election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency feels like a sharp U-turn toward inequalities we’d hoped to leave behind. Others see Trump’s...
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White People Can Have A Torch-Wielding Mob, But When Black Folks March Peacefully, It’s Martial Law
Torch-wielding alt-right demonstrators took to the streets of Charlottesville shouting “all lives matter” this weekend — and got away with it. I’ve lost count of the number of marches and street protests black citizens have planned and led in this Black Lives Matter era. Lets go with “a lot.” What isn’t lost on me is...