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Top 10 “What’s Up, Y’all?” Videos of 2020

December 27, 2020 by TBINAA Team Leave a Comment

2020 has been a difficult, heartbreaking, and tumultuous year in so many ways. The toll COVID is taking on our communities, especially the most disenfranchised among us (disproportionately poor and working-class people of color), remains heartbreakingly gut-wrenching. Governments across the globe have violated the rights of their people repeatedly, from the ongoing police … [Read more...]

3 Ways to Honor 9/11 Without Being Islamophobic

September 11, 2019 by Samaa Abdurraqib Leave a Comment

The anniversary of the September 11th attacks is always a precarious time. Because this tragedy is wrapped up in nationalist sentiments, the memorializing of our national grief easily gets caught up in anti-Islamic sentiments. Grief and pain and nationalism all seem to get conflated and simplified during this time. This anniversary is often a time of heightened vigilance for … [Read more...]

Black and Brown Solidarity Post-9/11: Why I Refuse to Engage in Respectability Politics

June 28, 2019 by Toni Bell Leave a Comment

I used to engage in respectability politics. I was taught that, if I proved I was of "good character,” I would be accepted by white society. I learned that it was my job to convince overtly and covertly racist white people that I was okay. I needed to make myself less threatening to shift their conscious and unconscious racist views and thereby make my life better. I was … [Read more...]

3 Ways to Honor 9/11 Without Being Islamophobic

Black and Brown Solidarity Post-9/11: Why I Refuse to Engage in Respectability Politics

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