4C the future
Shrinkage and shrinking—my natural hair journey
Six reasons why the Black community runs Twitter
When Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone founded Twitter back in 2006, I’m 60 percent sure that they didn’t know how much the app was going to blow up, and I’m 99 percent sure that they had no idea it would lead to a verified cultural phenomenon—Black Twitter. Twitter’s Black users, affectionately and simply
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Take off the rose-tinted glasses, Canada
Take off the rose-tinted glasses, Canada Words by Abi AkinladeIllustration by Helen Yu The Bible’s Book of Exodus refers to “a land flowing with milk and honey”; it alludes to an idyllic utopia in which its inhabitants never suffer from grief or hunger. According to the likes of Doug Ford and Don Cherry, Canada—the country
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Not my coming-of-age movie
Standing at the crossroads between film and race
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