By Keysha Bradley I’ve worked at my corporate job for 25 years, but it wasn’t until last year when I “officially” came out at work. For the first 24 years, […]
Category: Opinion
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Preserved by Purpose: Is Your Perception My Reality?
The media frenzy that surrounded the offensive comments that led to the firing of radio broadcasting icon Don Imus in 2007 brought many questions that have lingered unanswered for years […]
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Preserved by Purpose: Who’s Your Daddy?…Check Your DNA!
By Shewanda Riley Some of my guilty pleasures are the judge reality shows like Judge Mathis and Judge Lauren Lakes’ Paternity Court. My reasons for liking those shows vary but […]
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Put the brakes on the West Oak Cliff Area Plan
by Victoria Ferrell-Ortiz Growing up in Oak Cliff, Texas is something I’ve always been proud of despite others’ reactions. When I told a classmate at the University of North Texas […]
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Put the brakes on the West Oak Cliff Area Plan
By Victoria Ferrell-Ortiz Growing up in Oak Cliff, Texas is something I’ve always been proud of despite others’ reactions. When I told a classmate at the University of North Texas […]
Posted inCulture
From Celebration to For Sale: How America is Already Commercializing Juneteenth
By Marlissa Collier Were y’all able to get your Great Value Juneteenth ice cream, plates and napkins before Walmart pulled them off the shelves? Yeah, me neither. It all happened […]
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Rap & Misogyny: How Do We Reconcile Artists Actions with Their Work?
With figures like Kodak Black, Tory Lanez and Da Baby in the rap industry, there is a reminder that what you hear an artist’s songs is at times an uncomfortable misogynistic reality. As the music industry continues to progress and has conversations about these artists, we should question how we reconcile the way an artist speaks and at times behaves, with the work they have produced.
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The Paradox of Medication
Prescription medication is a complicated issue for those with mental illnesses to navigate in a time of opioid epidemics and more emerging knowledge of how pharmaceutical companies are run to improve their mental health without running the risk of addiction.
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Racist ‘Replacement’ Rhetoric is Deadly and Republicans Must Stop Using It
By Ben Jealous The young man who murdered 10 people in Buffalo, New York on May 14, was out to kill Black people. He chose a grocery store because he […]
