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Zakiya Dalila Harris' Slow-Burn Thriller "The Other Black Girl" Is An Indictment Of The Publishing Industry's Overwhelming Whiteness: BUST Revi
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(Books)
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... A public awareness of just how glaringly white the industry is. Former editorial assistant Zakiya Dalila Harris plunges readers directly into the publishing world with The Other Black Girl, a slow-burning ...
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Created on 26 May 2021
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Lysol's Horrifying History Of Marketing Cleaning Products As Birth Contro
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(Living)
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Trump wasn't the first to suggest a spoonful of disinfectant for all that ails you. At a White House coronavirus task force meeting in April 2020, the president wondered out loud if an “injection” of ...
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Created on 25 March 2021
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"Assassins" Is A Conspiracy-Filled Nail Bite
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(Movies)
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... Supreme Leader. In his comprehensive documentary, filmmaker Ryan White plunges into the strange, twisty, conspiracy-filled story of Kim Jong-nam’s death, his assailants, and the Kim dynasty. While the ...
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Created on 08 January 2021
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#JusticeForAmber: Pregnancy-Related Negligence During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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(Living)
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... white women. This statistic is undoubtedly made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Women of color, statistically, tend to have worse outcomes with virtually any condition, including pregnancy,” Goldman ...
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Created on 15 May 2020
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20 Moments from the 2020 Women's March You Might Have Missed If Your Feminism Isn't Intersection
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(Feminism)
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... Speakers and leaders of the event have notably been mainly cis, white, middle-class women (such as Gloria Steinem, Scarlett Johansson, Ashley Judd, and Nancy Pelosi). Recently, a few of the founding members ...
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Created on 21 January 2020
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The Top Feminist Moments From The 77th Golden Globes
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(Entertainment)
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... deserving figures in the film industry, although it often notoriously overlooks women and minorities with most of the nominations and winnings going to white men. At the beginning of 2020, one would hope ...
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Created on 06 January 2020
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High Uranium Levels Found in Women from Navajo Nation
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(Feminism)
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... white population so their work could go uninterrupted. So, they chose the Navajo Nation.
According to The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, over 500 uranium mines were built on the land. Between ...
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Created on 11 October 2019
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This 19th Century Empress's Beauty Routine Was Simply Too Muc
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(Feminism)
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... her hairdresser, Fanny Feifalik. Sisi’s Greek tutor Konstantin Christomanos describes the ritual:
“Behind the Empress’s armchair stood the hairdresser…With her white hands she burrowed in the waves of ...
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Created on 25 September 2019
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How The Once Enslaved "Stagecoach Mary" Became The Gun-Toting First Black Woman Mail Carrie
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(Feminism)
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... sexual abuse, and other ills. But having an outspoken Black woman around with the potential to negatively influence the Native American girls they were trying to assimilate into Victorian whiteness was ...
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Created on 19 August 2019
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Safe Spaces On The Open Road: Why More Women Are Embracing #VanLife
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(Living)
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... are white, but the number of women of color taking up vanlife is certainly growing. Vanlifers don’t have typical days and that’s the point. Every one is different, depending on how quickly a person moves ...
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Created on 07 August 2019
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My Depression Owes You An Apology (And So Do I)
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(Living)
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... writes on the whiteboard and I cannot focus because his spit has landed on my arm and now the germs are going to find their way through my skin into my bones and now he won’t stop pacing six steps to his ...
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Created on 04 June 2019
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Mother Jones Was A Hell-Raising Trailblazer In The Fight For Workers' Rights
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(Feminism)
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... Colorado miners in 1914.
Her “boys” were mostly white men. While Mother Jones welcomed black miners to the fight against “scab” labor hired by management to replace striking workers, she was not, in ...
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Created on 30 January 2019
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I Couldn't See What Dieting Cost Me Until I Gave It U
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(Feminism)
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... for two hours, and then I get dinner: one puffy white spoonful of aerosol whipped cream. I tally the day’s calories in my journal and write fat pig! I finally fit a size ___ at French Connection. I’m not ...
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Created on 30 January 2019
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"The Periodic Table of Feminism" Sheds Light On Feminism's Forgotten Trailblaze
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(Books)
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... under 200 pages, is small in form (it’s about a 5x7” with tiny font and plenty of white space, making it more about form than function), and contains lots of illustrations, it’s not a comprehensive read ...
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Created on 07 November 2018
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Erykah Badu On Aging, Motherhood, And Living "One Breath At A Time
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(Music)
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... to move and to evolve at a pace that’s conducive for survival. That’s how I see things. I don’t really see things as so black and white. Your son Seven is 20 now, and he was born when your critically-acclaimed ...
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Created on 20 July 2018
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The Anxious Women
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(Living)
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... my ideas.
My eyes filled with tears, and I appreciated the fifteen-dollar white sunglasses shielding my eyes.
“Everything okay?” my fiance asked. He sensed my energy, buzzing and frenetic.
“Yeah, ...
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Created on 12 July 2018
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The Scarlet Bob Is Saving The World From Boring Fashion, One Sequin At A Time
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(Style)
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... we say. Questionable even. I’ve gone through periods of quite specific looks, including a monochrome phase of black and white (if you can believe it!) and a magenta bob (minus the bangs) when I was in ...
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Created on 20 June 2018
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Lauryn Hill Is Going On Tour For The 20th Anniversary Of "Miseducation": Link Roundu
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(Music)
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... the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt.
White People Call The Police On Black People, Knowing The Deadly Consequences
Jason Johnson of The Root wrote a piece that breaks down the larger problem ...
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Created on 18 April 2018
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When Mermaid Sightings Were Treated As Fact
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(Living)
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... and chin were white, the whole side face of a bright pink colour. The head was exceedingly round and hair thick and long, of a grey oily cast, and appeared troublesome to it, the waves generally throwing ...
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Created on 04 April 2018
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A Sudden Death, A Grieving Daughter, And A Leaky Vagina
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(Living)
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... its streets. The church was white clapboard, a picturesque Little House on the Prairie-type building surrounded by snowy fields and straight empty roads built for DUIs. Inside, the church was gussied up ...
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Created on 27 March 2018
