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  • When It Hits Home: Intimate Partner Violence Yields Deadly Outcomes for Black Women

    When It Hits Home: Intimate Partner Violence Yields Deadly Outcomes for Black Women

    The Facebook post read, “MISSING: TĂ©a B. Choates, Last seen Tuesday 8/6 in Lithonia Ga area.” The social media plea came from Choates’s mother, Ebony King. The 19-year-old was last seen by her fiance, Aldeyshaun Locklear. Seven days later, Choates’s body was recovered from a wooded area on the outskirts of Atlanta, CBS46 reported. Locklear,…

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  • The Ongoing Assault Against Jasmine Eiland Proves How Hard Society Goes in Hating Black Women 

    (Editor’s note: The following article includes a description of a sexual assault and may be triggering to some. Please safeguard yourself accordingly.) On January 20, a woman was sexually violated—and at least 800,000 eyes watched. Nearly as many were callous in sharing the grim details of her assault, captured for all to see on social…

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  • Wendy Williams Is Wildin’; When It Comes to Sexual Assault, Women Can Get It Twisted, Too

    Talk show host Wendy Williams has a long history of being problematic. Years before her success as a television host, she dominated New York City radio as a shock jock obsessed with celebrity gossip and provocative chitchat. She spat vitriol that scathed her targets and caused many of them to retaliate, most notably Sean “Diddy”…

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    Ida Harris

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  • Playing the Blame Game: Consent Is Both Simpler and More Complicated Than You Think

    He liked me. I liked him back. I exchanged my phone number for his beeper information, and it was a go. In the days of analog communication—before inboxes and DMs—that is what a hookup entailed. His responses to my pages were timely, and he didn’t mind spending countless hours discussing hip-hop. I was digging Ghostface.…

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    Ida Harris

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  • Celebrating Ourselves: A Toast to #TeamNatural

    The year 2017 was a good year for black hair. Solange did the absolute most, impressing us with African-inspired avant-garde hairstyles. Then there was Erykah Badu—aka “Sara Bellum,” aka “Fat Belly Bella,” aka “Medulla Oblongata,” aka “Low Down Loretta Brown,” aka “Analogue Girl in a Digital World”—who pushed all the way through in what she…

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  • From Bus Stops to Hip-Hop: An Ode to Around-the-Way Girls

    Cardi B, we’re really happy for you and we’re gonna let you finish, but girls from the hood been at this for a minute … Belcalis Almanzar, better known as the reality star-turned-star rapper Cardi B, has arrived. She fixed her teeth, made Billboard chart history, and finessed her way into the ears and hearts…

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  • What #JusticeForJazzy Would Look Like if I Were Jazzy

    My formative years were spent on the south side of New York City’s Jamaica, Queens. The small neighborhood is almost considered a quiet suburb of New York City. Quiet—it is not. Suburban—kinda, sorta, but not quite. Sure, there were blocks of tree-lined streets, houses and backyards with grassy knolls, but it also included the 40s…

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  • We Get It. It’s Harvey Weinstein’s News Cycle. But What About Our Black Girls? 

    I stopped watching broadcast news five years ago, after a sex crime was reported in close proximity to where I live. The local news was beginning to feel like trauma porn and was much too close to home. The purge had been a healthy choice—that is, until national news infiltrated my timeline, the Twitterverse and…

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