In her new book, Franchise, Marcia Chatelain explains how black franchise owners became the backbone of the industry.
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More to Love? 5 Partners Sound Off on Juicy Pregnancy Sex
With black women already fighting for our lives during pregnancy and childbirth, we now have to find the capacity to fight for our pleasure too?
Voting On the Future of Abortion Access
For the first time, presidential candidates are talking in depth about abortion—and we’re still not asking the right questions.
It’s Time to Fully Welcome LGBTQ Members Into the AME Church
A change in our policy is a step in the right direction.
You Could Never Misgender Me
When you use the wrong pronoun, you’ve crossed my boundary but you could never misgender me.
The Decade We Tore Down Our Racist Past
History broke wide open — and so did the arguments about what should be memorialized
Nice Guys Kill to Stay Nice: On the Weaponizing of Kindness and Why ‘Perfect Abusers’ Don’t Exist
“I don’t want to be like the other guys you met,” he said.
Eugenics Is Influencing Dating Apps and Other Forms of Tech
While touting tech ‘advancements’ as being explicitly based in eugenics or scientific racism may be out of fashion, that doesn’t mean it’s not happening.
Trauma is Not Our Name: On the Epitaphs and Eulogies of Black Life
This is only slightly a review of Queen & Slim, and more-so a take on the politics of visibility and how many of us will die to be seen not knowing that being seen is, too, death.
Meet the Prosecutors Resisting America’s Frightening New Abortion Bans
A group of progressive attorneys is refusing to enforce new abortion laws. But in a legal landscape so hostile to choice, is deliberate inaction enough?