How to Make Black Lives Matter During COVID
WirePhoto by Richard Goff on Unsplash Frieda Wiley, YES Magazine (originally posted May 5, 2020) As the coronavirus exacerbates longstanding racial health disparities,…
Chamillionaire makes headlines for showcasing Black-Latinx solidarity
Monique(Chamillionaire in July 2008. (CC) Brian Solis, www.briansolis.com and bub.blicio.us.) I’m sure a lot of you out there are like,…
How to dress like Cinderella for your wedding day
If there’s one picture I’ve been obsessed with lately, it’s this press photo from 1997’s Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, starring…
The night when straight white males tried to kill disco
DJ Steve Dahl during Disco Demolition at Comiskey Park, Chicago, Illinois, 12 July 1979. Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images ‘This…
#RepresentYourStory: The Unicorn Effect: Finding Self-Love and Acceptance as a Disabled Black Woman
By Vilissa Thompson, LMSW I am Black. I am physically disabled. I am a woman. It has taken me almost…
Celebrate Father’s Day and Fatherhood with “Daddy Don’t Go”
Father's Day is coming up, and if you and your dad are looking for something meaningful to watch together, try Daddy,…
ICYMI: This Week in Blogs
Here's some of the stuff I read this week: "Why the deaths of Latinos at the hands of police haven't…
ICYMI: This Week in Blogs
Here are some of the op-eds and interviews I read this week! I read two posts on America's failures to…
Black-Asian Relations and "Fresh Off the Boat": Education, Motherhood and the "Tiger Mom"
In my review for Fresh Off the Boat, I wrote a lot about how Eddie's love of rap (and his parents…
