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Find Your Next Favorite Read Through These Ten BookTokers
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(Books)
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... her reviews, videos with trending TikTok sounds, and storytelling. She posts several times a week and brings fresh and creative content to BookTook. Adannia uses her TikTok to highlight Black authors across ...
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Created on 09 March 2023
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Chicago Rapper Noname's Book Club And Radical Hood Library Are Dedicated To Uplifting BIPOC Voices And Educating The Incarcerated ...
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(Books)
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WITH THE TAGLINE, “Reading Material for the Homies,” Noname Book Club is putting its mission of connecting Black and Brown people with radical books front and center. The project was founded in 2019, ...
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Created on 19 May 2022
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Struggling With Loneliness One Year Into The Pandemic? These 9 Simple Tips Can Help.
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(Living)
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... organization that encourages walking for a good cause, join GirlTrek. This organization’s goal is to inspire healthy living for families. It is most notable for the Black History Bootcamp Walk, a 21-day ...
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Created on 31 March 2021
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Malala Yousafzai Is Leading A Feminist Book Club And You Should Join
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(Books)
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... to see what you learn from what is there on the reading list and what you learn from what is not there on the reading list...there’s a huge, huge lack of Black writers and lecturers.” This is, of course, ...
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Created on 24 August 2020
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The 100th Anniversary of (Some) Women's Suffrage: Did YOUR state support women's right to vote? Check this state-by-state history of the fight for suffrage in Ameri
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(Feminism)
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... women who secured the right; Black women would have to wait nearly 5 decades more to actually exercise that right.
You’ve probably heard about many of the women involved in this fight, but it wasn’t ...
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Created on 18 August 2020
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Big Freedia Opens Up About Beyoncé, Bounce, Being Black in New Orleans, and Her Boo: BUST Interview
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(Music)
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... have any white fans. It was just still local, Black, New Orleans. I hadn’t started traveling. So, when those two guys knew who I was, I was like, ‘Girl, I am arriving already!’ You know? [laughs].”
Darrell ...
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Created on 23 June 2020
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Make Some B-Movie Magic With Josie Cotton's Groovy New Tune, “Girl In Gold Boots”: BUST Premier
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(Music)
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... by Cotton, punk legend Geza X (Black Flag, Dead Kennedys), and Bill Rhea (Del Rubio Triplets), Invasion of the B-Girls includes liner notes written by John Waters as well as guest performers like David ...
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Created on 30 April 2020
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In Honor Of Hulu's “The Great,” Here Are Some Other Women In History We'd Love To See Onscre
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(TV)
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... about Sojourner Truth and there should be. More specifically, maybe there should be a TV show about Sojourner Truth beginning when she became the first black woman to ever successfully sue a white man ...
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Created on 25 March 2020
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Let Them Sit On Cake: Professional Cake Sitter Lindsay Dye On Art, Camming, And The Decriminalization of Sex Work
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(Arts)
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... child’s pose, dressed in a metallic blue bodysuit, platform heels, and a long black ponytail, things are not all that they seem. Dye tops off her performances with live singing—most often sad love songs—while ...
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Created on 06 December 2019
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Janelle James Gives Listeners The Scoop On Her Major Brooklyn Comedy Fest On BUST's Poptarts Podcast
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(Poptarts)
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... Lucas Brothers and Jaboukie Young-White. Her debut comedy album, Black and Mild is available on all major streaming networks and she’s currently a writer on Black Monday on Showtime. On this episode of ...
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Created on 26 November 2019
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Janelle James Is Here For A Good Time: BUST Interview
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(Entertainment)
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... Do you agree with this? Do you feel this representation of women in comedy has extended to Black women as well?
Really? Really? (laughs) Who’s getting these milestones?
Well, mainly white women…
Like ...
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Created on 22 November 2019
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A Voice of A Generation: My Complicated Relationship with "Girls
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(TV)
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... to charges of racism against the show’s first season, Dunham cast Donald Glover in a tokenized role, a black Republican who only lasted for a couple of episodes, never feeling fully integrated into the ...
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Created on 13 June 2019
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How New Orleans' "Baby Dolls" Created A Feminist Legac
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(Feminism)
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At the turn of the 20th century, a group of Black sex workers in New Orleans started a tradition that became a Mardi Gras mainstay. They called themselves Baby Dolls, and they remain a symbol of Black ...
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Created on 30 May 2019
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Lunachicks Recall Fighting Sexism with Sisterhood
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(Music)
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... a popular crowdfunding site was stiffing tons of artists, L7 included, Joan came through and will be releasing the new L7 album on her own label, Blackheart Records. And Kim Gordon, we gotta give her props. ...
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Created on 25 April 2019
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The Doughnut-Making "Clubmobile Girls" Of WWI
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(Feminism)
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... for Clubmobiles. Because of segregation, there were separate ones for white and black troops.
One hundred Clubmobiles were made, and after the Normandy Invasion, ten groups of Clubmobile girls and eight ...
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Created on 04 January 2019
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“Lesbians Will Always Be Here And Have Always Been Here”: Talking Queer Visibility, Butchness, And Sinister Wisdom With Writer Carina Julig
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(Feminism)
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Sinister Wisdom is a cornerstone of lesbian publishing and feminist culture. Founded in 1976, Sinister Wisdom is home to generations of lesbian writing and queer art—making Sinister Wisdom the longest-running ...
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Created on 25 October 2018
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The Real Betty Boop Was Whitewashed Out Of History
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(Feminism)
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... mannerisms, the voice! Helen’s case looked iron tight!
BUT Helen had a secret. You see, that act that made her so unique, the one she was fighting for…it wasn’t her act. She’d stolen it. From a black ...
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Created on 17 September 2018
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How Civil Rights Activist Mary McLeod Bethune Revolutionized America
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(Feminism)
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The only thing stopping Mary and her family was the color of their skin. Mary vowed to change this.
Again, Mary was a child when she decided to dedicate her life to revolutionizing black rights.
And ...
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Created on 27 August 2018
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16 Feminist Comedians To Watch Instead Of Yet Another Straight White Dude
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(Entertainment)
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... became the first artist to sell out 8 shows at the SF Masonic Theater.
Robin Thede
In 2015, Robin became the first black woman to be the head writer on a late-night show with her work on The Nightly ...
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Created on 10 August 2018
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Ryan Seacrest Will Host The Oscars Red Carpet Show Despite Sexual Assault Allegations: Link Roundup
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(Feminism)
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... of the Parkland school shooting. Head on over to the New York Times to read the whole story.
Netflix Isn’t Paying Black Women Fairly
Both Mary J. Blige and Mo'Nique have both called out Netflix ...
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Created on 28 February 2018