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Right now, House impeachment managers are making a case for why ex-President Donald Trump should be held accountable for inciting the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Strength and joy go hand-in-hand, and this week’s literary releases beautifully celebrate both. In certain parts of the country, we’re knee-deep in snow and ice, and finding the strength to feel even the littlest joy is quite difficult. But we’ve almost hit the halfway point of February, the days are getting longer, and we can almost see warmer days ahead. This week, Suleika Jaouad’s memoir Between Two Kingdoms gives readers an empathetic insight into one of the more challenging points in her life, while Cortney Lamar Charleston’s second collection of poetry, Doppelgangbanger, she...
Photo: Brent Stirton (Getty Images) The first few weeks of 2021 have been a lesson in white privilege for anyone who’d still like to deny its existence in America. We saw a mass of domestic terrorists take over the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, threatening to assassinate elected officials and even trampling to death some of their own fellow MAGA members, all because they were mad that other (read: non-white) Americans’ votes count when it comes to deciding who the president is. After the attack, most of them went right back to their white-collar jobs and the businesses they owned, with no fear ...
Screenshot: Rochester Police Department/ YouTube I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Cops don’t need to be called to every emergency. Advertisement This goes especially for emergency calls that involve the mental health or general wellness of Black people. We’ve seen time and timeagain that when police officers are called to handle non-violent emergencies involving Black people, they tend to only make things worse—and by “worse,” I mean a Black person ends up dead or grossly mistreated. In Rochester, New York, police were called to a domestic disturbance involving a Black...
Screenshot: Fox 46 Charlotte Have you ever encountered an act of racism that—even in America, the land of acts of racism—leaves you so confused you’re forced to ask, “But why though?” Advertisement Kyetra Bryant said she was the victim of that type of bewildering racism on Thanksgiving last year after she and her boyfriend had checked in with American Airlines at the Charlotte Douglas Airport in Charlotte, N.C. That weekend, she noticed a peculiar charge on her bank statement associated with the airline—an “African American, African service charge.” “I said hmmm, ‘African ...