The pop icon celebrated the track’s 30th anniversary on social media, recalling the drama behind the hit song
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It’s 2019, So Why Must People Still Be Schooled on the Unacceptability of Blackface?
How are we still having this conversation? Somehow blackface just keeps popping up, from politicians’ yearbook photos to questionable fashion choices.
A 1971 John Wayne Interview Reveals the On-Screen Cowboy to Be a Homophobic Racist
For no overly apparent reason, the interview from Playboy magazine is making the rounds on social media, and not for the best of reasons
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Japanese internment is a dark stain on U.S. history, and this scientist argues the DACA showdown is the same thing all over again
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Read Martin Luther King Jr.’s Advice to a Closeted Teen
10 years before the Stonewall uprising, Martin Luther King Jr. gave advice to a scared, closeted teen… but was it good advice?
It’s Been 5 Years Since the Groundbreaking (and Divisive) TV Series ‘Looking’ Premiered on HBO
Despite being a trailblazing series for queer visibility, it was also divisive among the audience it aimed to represent and serve
Adult Film Star Max Konnor Shares a Story of Racism in NYC on Social Media
Max Konnor and a friend stepped into NYC’s The Leather Man on Saturday but claims he was racially profiled and asked to leave the store
This Photographer Is Challenging Ideas of Black Masculinity With a Splash of Glitter
Quil Lemons is a 20-year-old photographer who is challenging conceptions of black masculinity through his photo series Glitterboy — come check it out
In 1968, Comic Book Master Stan Lee Wrote an Essay Calling Bigotry a Plague on the World
This short essay about the dangers of hate appeared in a comic book during the peak of the Civil Rights Movement
‘White Guys Only’: Here Are 7 Forms Sexual Racism Can Take Among Queer Men
The difference between racism and preference is that sexual racism reinforces oppression and racial supremacy, while sexual preference is about eroticism
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