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Serena Williams isn't just an athlete – she shows black girls their bodies are perfect
Victoria BrownThe tennis star is a cultural touchstone for everyone, but for young girls of color, she is as necessary as air
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Kermit the Frog's new girlfriend is younger, thinner – and blander
Megan CarpentierHow could the veteran Muppet trade in someone as fabulous as Miss Piggy for boring new model Denise? In 2015, that’s a move worthy of Ben Affleck -
For student athletes it’s all work, not play, but the NCAA fails to compensate or protect them
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Evangelicals need to stop giving the rest of us Christians a bad name
Tracey M Lewis-GiggettsSome sects of American Christianity have stopped living by the Golden Rule. It makes the public think the whole religion is rotten -
The prosecution of the escort site is a symptom of law enforcement’s insidious efforts to disrupt sex workers’ networks of mutual support and safety
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Minaj’s supposed ‘catfights’ – the latest at the VMA awards – are heavily reported. But the media rarely reflects on her astute political points
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Most of our books and movies set in the future are dystopian, which makes it hard to work toward something better
#FergusonNext
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One year ago, the world turned to Ferguson. From mourning emerged a coalition of activists proclaiming that black lives matter and fighting for life and love. The Guardian spoke to 18 leaders about what has changed and what has not ... yet
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Grassroots activists are pushing their way through spaces and forcing conversation. That makes us all a little tense but that’s the whole point, isn’t it?
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If police officers were really good at their jobs, not so quick to target darker-skinned men, they would be coming after me, too
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Hurricane Katrina proved that if black lives matter, so must climate justice
Elizabeth C YeampierreThe environmental justice and Black Lives Matter movements are complementary. We can’t afford to choose between the two -
Why laptops are mightier than guns
D WatkinsIn West Baltimore, young men are swapping weapons for a chance to become technologically savvy and learn skills that will help them find work -
We need a nuanced narrative of African-American men, as well as black history, culture and life in America. We are individuals, not types
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Steven W ThrasherSteven W ThrasherJohn Kasich wants to take lounges away from teachers. He is just the latest Republican to make an enemy of America’s educators
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Jess ZimmermanJess ZimmermanMost of our books and movies set in the future are dystopian, which makes it hard to work toward something better
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Jeb LundJeb LundThe candidate who wants to deny the science behind male-pattern baldness more than the science behind climate change isn’t in it to win it
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Syreeta McFaddenSyreeta McFaddenRacism and capitalism are fire and air - one cannot exist without the other but many progressives can’t see that
The US must do more to help Syria. Step one: let more refugees resettle here
Bernie Duffy Finding a refugee in my basement was a wake-up call to the crisis