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On the night of August 31, 2019, police officers rushed into a Hong Kong subway station, swinging their batons and chasing suspected anti-government protesters into the narrow carriageways of a parked train as an emergency warning blared overhead. Like many pivotal moments of the city’s protest movement, the scenes were …

Fans have been calling for a Verzuz battle between Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey, but super producer Timbaland says he has other plans for the “We Belong Together” singer. Swizz Beatz and Timbaland’s Verzuz Instagram Live battle series has seen some legendary artist match-ups so far. Fans now want a …

Ghanian artist Shatta Wale in a scene from Black is King. Screenshot: @beyonce (Instagram I love Beyoncé. But more importantly, I really love when members of the global Black diaspora connect with each other. It brings me joy to listen to Afrobeat, the genre that dominates the soundtrack for The …

In the winter of 1975, a quiet young woman from Lexington, Kentucky, met her Ph.D. adviser in Brown University’s writing program for a series of unsatisfactory tutorials about an ambitious project of hers that had yet to fully reveal itself. The encounters were strange enough that her adviser still recalled …

Terry Crews has issued an apology to Gabrielle Union for not publicly supporting her following her departure from America’s Got Talent and the subsequent racism allegations she levelled against NBC. In the days following her exit from the talent competition show, Crews appeared to distance himself very quickly amid Union’s …

Screenshot: scientology.org Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) is doing plenty of walking back this weekend after increased media scrutiny into her past statements, amid reports that she is one of a few Black women under consideration for Joe Biden’s running mate position. On Saturday, the Congresswoman responded to a video recently …

There is another cause for concern, this one about what the virus might do to children themselves. Although the rate of morbidity in young children is relatively low, young children are also among the least-tested cohort in America. Fauci has stressed repeatedly in recent weeks that we know relatively little …

Seattle’s Office of Civil Rights has developed a “race and social justice” curriculum on “institutionalized racial superiority” for all 10,000 city employees. The program is designed to train white people only, according to documents obtained by independent journalist Christopher Rufo, Yahoo reports. In a series of tweets, he lays out …

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Carballo: When smallpox and other diseases spread through Mexico, it would have seemed to Mesoamericans that their known world was crumbling around them. If the specter of mass deaths due to pandemic disease were removed, European colonialism in Latin America might have looked somewhat more like how it unfolded in …