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  1. health
    How Our Definition of Healthy Fails Black WomenWhat I’ve learned in my years as a dietitian.
    By Jessica Wilson
  2. celebrity
    Meghan Markle on When She Stopped Being ‘Treated as a Mixed Woman’In a new episode of Archetypes, she and Mariah Carey unpack the word diva and their experiences as biracial women.
    By Olivia Truffaut-Wong
  3. culture wars
    Mother Outraged Her Biracial Son Has Learned to Identify RacismMelissa Riley tried to sue her son’s middle school for teaching him about inequality.
    By Danielle Cohen
  4. power
    A Tale of Two CitiesWhy the Women’s Prison Association chose a Black woman from Baltimore to lead it.
    By Caryn York
  5. power
    The New Face of American Gun OwnershipBlack women are pushing against the (white, rural, and male) stereotype.
    By Agya K. Aning
  6. politics
    Clinton’s Misunderstood ‘Sister Soulja Moment’ Doesn’t Need a RevivalWhen you understand the full context of Clinton’s 1992 remarks, calls for Biden to deliver his own challenge to Black activists make even less sense.
    By Ed Kilgore
  7. power
    A New Book for the ‘Abolition Curious’“There’s only so much longer we as a society will tolerate police killing three people per day.”
    By Mary Retta
  8. emmys 2021
    Are the Emmys Really Trying to Do Better?People of color got a lot of nominations, but it’s mostly white people who took home the awards.
    By Whitney Friedlander
  9. power
    The Real Reason Black Mothers Are Being Pushed to BreastfeedEfforts to close the racial breastfeeding gap are more complicated than they appear.
    By Jennifer C. Nash
  10. the discourse
    How Anti-Racist Is Ibram X. Kendi’s Anti-Racism?His approach to fighting racism contains glaring inconsistencies and contradictions that might undermine his own project.
    By Eric Levitz
  11. tokyo olympics
    Black Olympians Are Set Up to FailBecause of rigid and outdated regulations rooted in racism, athletes like Sha’Carri Richardson won’t get to compete.
    By Ashley Stoney
  12. mental health
    Building a World Where Black Folks Can Breathe EasierWith her wellness space Black Girls Breathing, Jasmine Marie pledges to help millions of women on their mental-health journeys.
    By Mary Retta
  13. in the heights
    Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jon M. Chu and In the Heights Actors Address Film’s ColorismRita Moreno has also addressed the backlash, saying, “Can’t you just wait a while and leave it alone?”
    By Rebecca Alter
  14. reckoning with a reckoning
    Eavesdropping on $5,000 Anti-Racist Dinner PartiesTwo entrepreneurs have built a business dredging up white women’s shame.
    By Molly Fischer
  15. reckoning with a reckoning
    White People Are SquirmingEight writers on what happens when the people around you are suddenly forced to confront race.
  16. book excerpt
    ‘You Must Play Basketball’He wants to see my moves. My Black athleticism will turn him on. But my body is a marionette with tangled and impossibly knotted strings.
    By Brian Broome
  17. power
    Tarana Burke Is Just Trying to Do Her WorkA long talk about Black women, Me Too, and intentions with the activist and founder.
    By Shamira Ibrahim
  18. power
    Who Gets to Write a Recovery Memoir?Hunter Biden’s Beautiful Things insists that addiction is an equalizer, which just isn’t true.
    By Nour Abi-Nakhoul
  19. art and soul
    Reimagining What Monuments Can BeA new public-art exhibition in Philadelphia aims to “transform the way our country’s histories are told in public spaces.”
    By Cornelia Channing
  20. the cut podcast
    The Cut Podcast: Does This Poster Make Me Look Racist?This week, The Cut podcast producer B.A. Parker discusses racist and problematic historical artwork.
    By the Cut
  21. the bigger picture
    A Gathering of Radical LovePhotos from “Protect Asian Lives,” a tender space for queer Asians, by queer Asians.
    By Andrew Nguyen
  22. first person
    Was That Racism?I ask myself this question almost every day.
    By Julie Kim
  23. gallery view
    MoMA’s First Show on Race in Architecture Chooses Lofty Ideas Over Pragmatism“Why settle for the probable when we could instead imagine what is possible?”
    By Justin Davidson
  24. close reads
    What Was the Asian American Character Actor?For way too long, supporting roles were both the ceiling and a devil’s bargain.
    By Alison Willmore
  25. the bigger picture
    A Day of Solidarity Amid Rising Anti-Asian ViolencePhotos from a Black and Asian solidarity protest in New York, by the photographer Stephanie Mei-Ling.
    By Amanda Arnold
  26. all work no pay
    A Common Theme for Black WomenUnemployment has been our disproportionate reality since long before the pandemic.
    By Abby Adesanya
  27. art and soul
    Jasmin Hernandez Made the Coolest Coffee-Table Photo BookLet the Gallery Gurls founder tell you about it, and give you a look inside.
    By Devine Blacksher
  28. ch-ch-changes
    Sephora Has a Plan to Tackle Racial BiasNew protocol, fewer security guards, and more Black-owned beauty brands.
    By Erica Smith
  29. the cut podcast
    Your Friendly Black SidekickTypecasting young Black girls as the supportive best friend, on this week’s episode of The Cut.
    By the Cut
  30. capitol insurrection
    ‘It Was No Accident’Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal on surviving the siege.
    By Rebecca Traister
  31. capitol insurrection
    American AmnesiaA new dawn doesn’t mean that the darkness never existed.
    By Evette Dionne
  32. cable news
    Joy Reid Delivers Powerful Speech on Capitol Siege and Race on MSNBC“White Americans aren’t afraid of the cops. White Americans are never afraid of the cops, even when they’re committing an insurrection.”
    By Chris Murphy
  33. profile
    Adonis Finds His VoiceThe model, singer and co-parent (with Slick Woods) on tokenism in fashion and being sexually fluid.
    By Matthew Schneier
  34. how i get it done
    How a Nap Guru Gets It DoneCommunity activist Tricia Hersey sees rest as resistance and reparation.
    By Amina Khan
  35. the bigger picture
    A Place for Artists to Hit ResetJasmine Clarke’s photographs capture moments of Black joy at a residency upstate.
    By Devine Blacksher
  36. the cut podcast
    The Dangerous Legacy of White Male AmericaFeaturing author Ijeoma Oluo on this week’s episode of The Cut.
    By the Cut
  37. book excerpt
    The Dangerous Legacy of White Male AmericaAn excerpt from a new book by the author of So You Want to Talk About Race.
    By Ijeoma Oluo
  38. remembrance
    Kenzo Takada Showed Me a Different Way to Be Asian in FashionRemembering the Japanese designer who changed my life.
    By Humberto Leon
  39. power
    Only One Officer Was Charged in Breonna Taylor’s KillingA member of the grand jury claims they were never given the option to indict the other two officers.
    By Bridget Read
  40. art and soul
    MoMA PS1 Reopens to the Public With ‘Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration’Featuring art made by people in prisons as well as work by non-incarcerated artists.
    By Cassidy George
  41. wtf
    There’s a New Rachel DolezalJessica Krug has stepped down from her job as an associate history professor after admitting that she pretended to be Black.
    By Claire Lampen
  42. education
    Former Students Talk About Their Fake Black Professor“Now I’m just like … what else was a lie?”
    By Anna Silman
  43. fundraising
    Some ‘Pro-Sex, Anti-Fascist’ Art for Your WallsProceeds benefit groups supporting Black trans people and sex workers.
    By Andrew Nguyen
  44. cut covers
    Chika Is for LoversBut even lovers have their limits.
    By Kiana Fitzgerald
  45. the cut podcast
    Are We the Virus?Exploring our relationship to nature, and who’s allowed to be healed by it, on this week’s Cut podcast.
    By the Cut
  46. power
    Corey Couldn’t Take It AnymoreA Yale cafeteria worker smashed a monument to slavery, and changed an institution.
    By Quiara Alegría Hudes
  47. overloaded
    Life As a Black “Digital Nomad” Isn’t the SameMany people see living and working abroad as a privilege. For me, it’s a way of escaping deadly racism in the U.S.
    By Imani Bashir
  48. overloaded
    Beyond BurnoutFive Black women on working yourself sick.
    As told to Brianna Holt
  49. overloaded
    I’m the Only Doctor in My ER Who Stands Up to the CopsEmergency rooms are stressful even without the threat of brutality.
    By Michele Harper
  50. overloaded
    Am I Being Set Up to Fail?The recent wave of Black promotions and connections seems full of promise and potential, but this nagging thought remains.
    As told to Priska Neely
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