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Only Murders in the Building exemplifies the lies in 'true' crime

by Adedoyin "Ade" Adeniji and Bria Massey September 16, 2022December 4, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

The Dropout dramatizes Elizabeth Holmes' fraudulent rise. Endless military funding is also a scam.

by Bria Massey September 13, 2022December 4, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Yellowjackets shows a world without police as disorderly. Abolitionists aren't buying it.

by Molly Lipson September 13, 2022December 4, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Abbott Elementary and the promise of schools without cops

by Eteng Ettah September 12, 2022December 4, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

The White Lotus is supposed to be satire. Hawaiians deserve the last laugh.

by Mariah Rigg September 12, 2022December 4, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

RuPaul's Drag Race visibilizes queerness—and the police state

by Sezin Koehler September 12, 2022December 4, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Netflix's 'Spiderhead' forgets that the truth about prisons is stranger than sci-fi

by Siona Peterous September 2, 2022December 4, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Out of the Shadows: The Queer Life of Artist Beauford Delaney

by Tyra A. Seals June 29, 2022December 5, 2023
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The abolitionist podcast that reveals how little you know about prison

by Alysia Nicole Harris June 23, 2022December 5, 2023
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Hooked on Copaganda: What CoComelon actually teaches kids about police

by Bunny McFadden June 22, 2022December 5, 2023
Artist Ivy Sole discusses the impetus behind their latest record, and why the struggle to get free requires more than music and dope visuals.
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Getting 'Candid' with rapper Ivy Sole

by Taylor Hosking May 10, 2022December 5, 2023
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Treva Lindsay and Melissa Harris-Perry on misogynoir, poverty, and violence

by Courtney Napier April 25, 2022December 5, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

A queer and in-color geography: From Mumbai to West Virginia

by Anjali Enjeti March 3, 2022March 4, 2022
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Queer Black grxl survival in the thick of it all: Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya

by Alysia Nicole Harris November 23, 2021April 19, 2022
Posted inARTS & SOUL

In Review: 'Can these bones live?'

by W.J. Lofton July 23, 2021July 23, 2021
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Akwaeke Emezi: 'A dead thing sentenced to life'

by Ko Bragg June 11, 2021August 9, 2021
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Author Anjali Enjeti reckons with Asian American identity in white-dominant culture

by Deirdre Sugiuchi May 7, 2021May 7, 2021
Posted inARTS & SOUL

In the face of anti-trans bills, 'Mama Gloria' is a blessing

by Antonia Randolph April 23, 2021November 13, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Freedom wasn't given—it was seized

by Samantha Willis April 6, 2021April 7, 2021
Posted inRACE & PLACE

'Pure America': Eugenics past and present

by Adam Willems March 2, 2021March 3, 2021
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Review: One Night in Miami

by Khayla Deans February 23, 2021March 3, 2021
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From Appalachia to Outer Space: The beauty and the limits of perspective in Portraits & Dreams

by Kim Kobersmith December 7, 2020December 7, 2020
Posted inARTS & SOUL

When all hell breaks loose, North Carolina returns to the cypher

by Kyesha Jennings October 13, 2020October 13, 2020
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Sasha Rewrites Uhmareka

by Jamara Wakefield September 22, 2020December 3, 2020
Posted inARTS & SOUL

This I Know For Sure: Remembrance and freedom in Jaki Shelton Green's The River Speaks of Thirst

by Alysia Nicole Harris August 12, 2020November 21, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Postcolonial Love Poem: 'How do you maintain your tenderness?'

by mónica teresa ortiz June 24, 2020September 27, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL, RACE & PLACE

Breathing while Black in Mossville, Louisiana

by Danielle Purifoy June 18, 2020September 27, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Ballad of a Land Man: Kentucky theatre takes on fracking

by Kim Kobersmith June 3, 2020September 16, 2020
Posted inARTS & SOUL

"No Place Like Home" Notes from opening night at The Miami Third Horizon Caribbean Film Festival

by Zaina Alsous February 26, 2020December 3, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Fighting voter suppression in the South will make or break the 2020 elections

by Anna Simonton October 9, 2019September 16, 2020

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