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Who Polices the Police?

There’s a difference between looking a person up on social media and looking them up in a police database. It felt like an abuse of his power. 

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This is For the Lover in You: Anthony Bourdain

You can’t be a creative without that flash of desire to freeze the moment, everything from the sunlight to the croaking frogs (or the honking cars), and try in some way to bottle it. On paper, on canvas, or on a plate.

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The Mark of the Hawk is Forever

Christianity is supposed to be a balm for the Africans, the holy claim that all men are equal under God. But under man? Another story.

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Dear White People and the Issue of Sexuality

Dear White People is more nuanced and clever than many people–who’ve resisted it before seeing it–believe. It’s not a long rant about racism, it is a probing look into which issues are straw men, which are still relevant, and which ones we haven’t even addressed yet.

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Digital Diaspora: African Comics and Accessibility

Digital formats of African graphic novels and comics, as well as making many of them free and easily accessible to a diasporic audience, these writers, artists, and publishing companies are bringing their audience to a home

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