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  • The Insult And Intimidation Of Black Women Is As American As Apple Pie

    In an ideal world, we would spend the next few hundred words articulating the significance of a Black woman achieving rapid career acceleration in the entertainment industry after decades of hard work. Leslie Jones’s addition to SNL, an institution Whiter than tampon commercial underwear, is a major accomplishment. As is her being cast in the Ghostbusters reboot.…

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    Shamira Ibrahim

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  • Experience A Rape Trial Through The Perspective Of A Victim

    You’ve just experienced the worst night of your life. Maybe you remember all of the details, maybe you don’t. And truly, both circumstances are a unique brand of unfathomable hell. Either the detailed knowledge of all the ways that you have been irrevocably violated seared into your brain for eternity. Or a gaping space of…

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    Shamira Ibrahim

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  • "Niggas In Paris" Are Still Niggers To Parisians

    I have an older cousin named Halima. She lives in Nimes with her husband and five-year-old daughter, named Hikma, who is an avid Frozen enthusiast (called La Reines des Neiges in French) and Beyonce-in-training. For the most part, they live relatively peaceful middle-class existences. But every morning, Halima makes the trek from Nimes to Avignon…

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    Shamira Ibrahim

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  • Yeah, I'm Finished With The Black Suffering Trauma Porn Of Orange Is The New Black

    Warning: For those of you who do things like have lives and stuff and haven’t gotten around to watching the latest season of this Netflix show, spoilers ahead. Last Friday, Netflix dropped the latest season of Orange is The New Black, the critically-acclaimed dramedy of life in a minimum-security prison centered around Piper “I Didn’t…

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    Shamira Ibrahim

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  • An Unofficial Guide To Ramadan Fasting For The Uninitiated Negro

    The holy month of Ramadan has started for much of the Muslim population—which, despite all statements by Donald Trump and his ilk, is not exclusively made up of bomb-toting Arabs in menacing turbans. This demographic includes Asians (fun fact—Indonesia contains the largest Muslim population in the world), Caucasians, the man who sells you your bean…

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    Shamira Ibrahim

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  • Can Black People Be Gentrifiers?

    While I was not born in the United States, I spent the bulk of my formative years in Harlem. I went to elementary school on the north end of Amsterdam Avenue and middle school on Convent Avenue. While my mom was still getting comfortable speaking English when I was younger, she found solace in the…

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    Shamira Ibrahim

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  • The Three Types Of Men You Will Date, Based On The Black Guys In Captain America: Civil War

    Last weekend, I dusted off my sweatpants and trekked to the movies to see the latest Marvel Cinematic Adventure. It was a good comic book movie. Great even. I normally have a hard time sitting in a dark room for over two hours without taking at least one solid nap but I am proud to…

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    Shamira Ibrahim

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  • The Stages Of Getting Dragged By A 14-Year-Old (A Short Story Inspired By Beyonce’s "Lemonade")

    “Intuition” It is a mild spring day in Hamilton Heights. Gypsy cabs are zooming up and down the West Side Highway. Churros are being sold as the rooster crows. At a distance, a hate-filled bodega cat languidly stretches, and cocks its tabby ear. “I think someone is talking to about me,” it says. One paw…

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    Shamira Ibrahim

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  • Ludacris Has Ludicrous Hospitality Rider Requirements And We Need To Talk About This!

    There are very few things in 2016 that take me by surprise. After all, we live in a world where our federal government can look at my paltry checking account and insist that I owe them more money than they already take out of my pay stub. However, I was legitimately taken aback to find…

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    Shamira Ibrahim

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  • How Hotep Thinking Like Erykah Badu's Robs Black Children Of Their Childhoods

    My childhood before the age of 10 had some big milestones. I moved to the US and learned English. I adopted Harlem as my hometown. I got my first self-purchased cassette—Sisqo’s underrated but absolutely flames Unleash the Dragon. I had also seen and touched and touched an adult man’s penis, on multiple occasions, by the…

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    Shamira Ibrahim

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