Race
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Single Black women and the lies about our love lives
Yes, 62% of us aren’t married. That’s not a ‘problem’ that has to be fixed.
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Kirk Ferentz’s dismissed diversity adviser is right: The Iowa coach should resign
The football coach got a big raise while the school faces a racial discrimination lawsuit
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The Black vanguard in white utopias
Country music speaks to white sentimentality, but Black women pioneer ‘and continue to pioneer’
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Former Iowa football player still seeking closure for racism within program
As discrimination lawsuit continues, will Iowa hold itself to the same accountability it demands from players?
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The real reason the barbershop scene in ‘Harlem’ is so controversial
A Black space can be both sacred and harmful
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Guilty verdict for Ahmaud Arbery’s killers is a welcome sign of progress
A decade after Trayvon Martin’s death, a different Southern jury said this Black life mattered
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Minstrel songs like ‘The Eyes of Texas’ were once common on college football Saturdays in the South
Tunes such as ‘Dixie’ and ‘My Old Kentucky Home’ reframed grueling Black physical labor as a subject of light entertainment for white fans
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From ‘Fear of a Black Planet’ to ‘Fear of a Black Universe’
Physicist Stephon Alexander on how being an outsider leads to better science
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Anna Deavere Smith has something new to say about the 1992 riots
A revival of ‘Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992’ bridges the past to recent police-related murders of Black men