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A reporter’s job is to describe the world as it is, with clarity and accuracy. Use of the term “alt-right,” by concealing overt racism, makes that job harder. With that in mind, ThinkProgress will no longer treat “alt-right” as an accurate descriptor of either a movement or its members. We will only use the nameContinue reading “ThinkProgress will no longer describe racists as ‘alt-right’ A note from the ThinkProgress editors.”

Dear White Liberal Feminists, After Donald J. Trump’s election to the highest and most powerful political office of the United States last week, many of you have approached me, and my black brothers and sisters especially, with tearful eyes and somber faces. In person, in private, in public, and in the digital sphere, you have bemoaned theContinue reading “An Open Letter To White Liberal Feminists NOVEMBER 19, 2016 BY RHON MANIGAULT-BRYANT [Repost]”

Originally posted on Picturehouse Blog:
Director Nick Broomfield on his new film TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER ‘Black lives matter,’ the slogan of the Ferguson protestors, says it all. The struggle in Ferguson, on Staten Island and across the country is about as basic as they come. It’s about people being treated as if they…

 This is a very well-conceived call-to-action/tribute to young people killed gunned down in the U.S. Click here to watch the campaign video and click here learn more about the project. I signed their yearbook after learning about the petition here.

  Just like Donald Trump’s position as the presumptive Republican nominee for president of the United States highlights the dangers of American anti-intellectualism at a key point in democratic functioning, the self-righteous protesters in the photograph above underscore the perils of anti-intellectualism in everyday life. The sheer obduracy of these narrow-minded zealots, who have confusedContinue reading “Dr. Yashica Robinson Takes on Alabama”

Spelman College held commencement yesterday. Loretta Lynch gave the commencement address. Six years ago today, Detroit Police Officer Joseph Weekley killed 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley Jones. Now, I fully understand that yesterday, we staged a protest.