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You Can’t Be a Good Person and Racist at the Same Time
Read more: You Can’t Be a Good Person and Racist at the Same TimePeople who resist the label racist often do so not because they oppose injustice, but because it conflicts with how they see themselves. They tend to think of themselves as decent. Polite. Fair. People who love their families and treat others well in everyday life. So when racism enters the conversation, it feels like a…
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American Life: Living Under Someone Else’s Fear
Read more: American Life: Living Under Someone Else’s FearBefore anyone feels the urge to say, “Then go back to where you came from,” let me save you the trouble. After you. Let’s be clear. This country wasn’t discovered, and it certainly wasn’t settled through peace or consent. It was seized through violence and displacement—a history that still shapes how the disease of unease…
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“You Have to Be Ten Times Better:” The Black Survival Manual
Read more: “You Have to Be Ten Times Better:” The Black Survival ManualFor generations, many Black Americans have been raised with a message that was never meant to inspire per se, but primarily to protect: “you have to be ten times better than your counterparts just to be treated as equal.” It was strategy and a rational response to a society that routinely changed the rules the…
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What Your Tongue and Skin Reveal: Surprising TCM Health Lessons You Can Use Every Day
Read more: What Your Tongue and Skin Reveal: Surprising TCM Health Lessons You Can Use Every DayTraditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is one of the oldest healing systems in the world, but what makes it relevant today is not mythology or mysticism. It is the way TCM views the body as a living ecosystem where imbalance has patterns and symptoms have stories. Instead of asking “What pill fixes this,” TCM asks, “What…
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Gold Diggers? Let’s Talk About Free Labor Diggers
Read more: Gold Diggers? Let’s Talk About Free Labor DiggersSome men, still finding their financial footing, speak often of “gold diggers,” as if protecting something precious. But, beneath the surface, the fear isn’t about wealth. It’s moreso about worth. The truth is, those warnings often reveal more about self-perception than about women. It’s less a statement of caution and more a reflection of uncertainty—a…
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Diagnosing Racism: What Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Reveals About America’s Collective Disorder
Read more: Diagnosing Racism: What Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Reveals About America’s Collective DisorderIn the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s historic New York City mayoral victory, America was again reminded of its uneasy relationship with identity, power, and belonging. Mamdani, a Muslim of Ugandan-Indian heritage and democratic socialist, won on a platform rooted in affordability, public housing, and equity. Yet, much of the backlash he faced had little to…
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Restored and Rising: Inside Detroit’s Architectural Revival
Read more: Restored and Rising: Inside Detroit’s Architectural RevivalWhere scaffolding once stood, windows now catch the morning light. Streets that echoed with the sounds of rebuilding have softened into a quieter rhythm. Across downtown, buildings once forgotten stand restored, their details visible again—the curve of stone, the glint of copper, the weight of brick. Detroit’s newest landmarks—Michigan Central Station, the Hudson’s Detroit tower,…
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How Labels Can Dehumanize and Uphold Injustice
Read more: How Labels Can Dehumanize and Uphold InjusticeThroughout history, language has been used not only to describe, but to distort reality. It can make cruelty feel like order, exclusion sound like good policy, and violence appear like it’s necessary for progress. Labels turn people into abstractions, helping those in power stay distant from empathy and accountability when moral clarity threatens their status…
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When the Bear Family Speaks: The Story That Taught Us Not to Ask Why
Read more: When the Bear Family Speaks: The Story That Taught Us Not to Ask WhyWe’ve all grown up with Goldilocks and the Three Bears as a quaint bedtime story, a seemingly innocent girl with golden curls, guided by curiosity rather than conscience, who wanders into a home that isn’t hers, tasting, testing, and taking until she’s caught, then fleeing without consequence. Depending on the version, she either escapes into…
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Why Bad Bunny’s 2026 Super Bowl Performance Is About More Than Music
Read more: Why Bad Bunny’s 2026 Super Bowl Performance Is About More Than MusicThere are moments when representation reminds the world of its blind spots. Bad Bunny’s upcoming Super Bowl performance isn’t just entertainment. It’s a cultural checkpoint, a moment when art, identity, and belonging share the same stage. Who Bad Bunny Is and Why He Matters Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, known globally as Bad Bunny, isn’t just…
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Why Anti-Intellectualism Appeals in America—and Why It’s Dangerous
Read more: Why Anti-Intellectualism Appeals in America—and Why It’s DangerousAnti-intellectualism has been woven into America’s cultural fabric for decades, but in recent years it has surged into mainstream discourse with a new force. Politicians, influencers, and even neighbors increasingly champion a message that expertise, higher education, and literacy are overrated, or worse, elitist. It’s tempting to write this off as ignorance, but the truth…
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Juneteenth 2025: Honoring Freedom, Legacy, and Celebration in Detroit (Events Included)
Read more: Juneteenth 2025: Honoring Freedom, Legacy, and Celebration in Detroit (Events Included)Juneteenth, celebrated annually on June 19th, commemorates the day in 1865 when Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced the end of slavery over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation had gone into effect. Though delayed, the message marked a defining moment in U.S. history: the true beginning of freedom for all,…
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