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This year, 2020, is the gift that keeps on giving in the worst way possible, and the Black community is bearing the brunt of the bad news. Not only are we experiencing a disproportionate amount of deaths from COVID-19, but the guilty-until-proven-innocent media trials of Black people who’ve lost their lives are putting us over […]
It is impossible to declare that Black lives matter without reiterating the fact that Black trans lives matter. While much of the public conversation about police violence tends to overemphasize cisgender Black men, Black liberation isn’t possible unless all Black lives are valued and protected. More specifically, our society must reckon with the ways that […]
Tips for turning an uncomfortable conversation about race into an opportunity for growth. The ironic thing about being in an interracial relationship is how rarely race comes up. When my partner and I fell in love, I wasn’t falling in love with a white man, and he wasn’t falling in love with a Black woman. […]
For Black people, coping is a fraught and unceasing endeavor, especially right now. It includes the complex emotions that come from witnessing the deaths of George Floyd and the countless other folks who’ve lost their lives at the hands of the state. But it also includes fears of the new coronavirus pandemic. It might involve […]
Being Black in America requires an unbelievable amount of tenacity and, well, work. It’s practically a Black proverb that to succeed in this country, you must work twice as hard to get half as far. Many of us have been taught that showing up and overworking are the best ways to communicate our value. We […]
MEXICO CITY, June 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The U.S.protests over racial injustice should address the violence and discrimination faced by black transgender women, rights groups said on Monday, with at least a dozen trans people murdered this year in the United States. Targeted for their race and gender identity, trans black women are overlooked […]
When I first started writing this, I was excited to wax poetic about black joy and Instagram battles. I started drafting this story a week before Mother’s Day, buzzing from how the internet coalesced around Teddy Riley and Babyface and excited to watch Erykah Badu and Jill Scott battle it out. Amid the new coronavirus […]
Black men and women are nearly twice as likely to die with coronavirus as white people in England and Wales, according to the Office for National Statistics. The analysis shows the inequality persists after taking into account age, where people live and some measures of deprivation and prior health. People from Indian, Bangladeshi and Pakistani […]
A group of Black pastors is calling on President Donald Trump’s administration to address the racial and economic inequality that is making Black Americans and other minority communities far more vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic. The 12 pastors from across the country signed a letter declaring that they are firsthand witnesses of what preliminary demographic data […]
If you’re hungry for black bean recipes, well, welcome to the club. Bean sales are booming as the Americans do their part to help flatten the COVID-19 curve by socially distancing and sheltering in place. Many of us are currently staring at our pantry shelves, trying to figure out what the heck we’re going to […]
The person who delivers my groceries reminds me of my father. If I ever mentioned this to my dad, he’d laugh and say that “black people don’t all look alike.” But my deliveryman has my dad’s height and complexion—he looks 60 but could be 80—with glasses that sit above his face mask. He leaves my […]
In our new series What It’s Like, we speak with people from a wide range of backgrounds about how their lives have changed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. For our latest installment, I spoke with Chanel Porchia-Albert, a doula and birth educator in Brooklyn and founder of Ancient Song Doula Services, about how […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) spoke with a panel of experts Tuesday about the disproportionate effect of coronavirus on Black Americans, which is becoming more apparent as areas hit hard by the pandemic begin to release racial data on confirmed cases and deaths. The 2020 Democratic presidential candidate held a livestream discussion with his national press […]
COLUMBIA, South Carolina — On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a majority of the Democratic presidential candidates were on the steps of the Statehouse awkwardly stumbling through the words of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the Black national anthem. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) and former Massachusetts Governor […]
The beginning of our fertility journey was unremarkable in the best way. In September 2018, after a few poignant episodes of This Is Us and a long conversation about our hopes and fears, my husband and I decided we would start trying to get pregnant. The months leading up to our start date were full […]