Yesterday, USA Gymnastics hosted its selection camp to help choose the five-person team for the upcoming world championships in Doha. I say “help choose” because the results from this competition—or any competition for that matter—aren’t truly determinative of who will be named or not. Final team composition will be…

*sigh* You haven’t read any of the comments in your own thread from the white women who get it, yet, I guess …?   Because if you are “well aware of the conversation” you would not only have noticed that the rest of us are too - which was the first sentence I wrote — but also if you were as “aware” as you claim, your…

Well ... yes.

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Spoilers

You can start with three, off the top of my head:  you can read the original The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, you can read For Colored Girls Who’ve Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange, and - despite the disdain that has rained down on Julie Swetnick because her claims aren’t what men…

They don’t want you to vote.

You’re right, but Anne is highlighting something else (that’s vigorously disputed by white men being defensive about being “objective” when they’re blind to their own biases). She’s talking about the fact that the ethnicity of the reporter has the potential to influence both the topic and the tone of the coverage,…

In newsrooms across the country, political reporters and pundits are trying to read the tea leaves on what’s in store for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in the wake of multiple allegations of sexual assault and misconduct and accusations that Kavanaugh lied multiple times under oath during last week’s Judicial…