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Sally Hemings is no longer an afterthought. For decades, the Monticello estate and former plantation in Charlottesville, Virginia, formerly owned by Thomas Jefferson, has committed itself to preserve the legacy of a slaveholder and the third president of the United States. In 1993, the estate began its "Getting Word" project which allowed the public to join them in heralding...
As we continue to recover from last week's overload of troubling tweets, revelations and a precedent-setting jury verdict, #MeToo founder and activist Tarana Burke has already found the lesson in it all.Amid the recent the Bill Cosby verdict, which found one of the pillars of early black family sitcoms guilty of sexual assault, and Kelis' revelation her former husband and...
Just two months after giving vaginas a monologue, Janelle Monae is passing her inclusive mic to members of one of the lesser understood communities on the sexuality spectrum. After years of public speculation surrounding her sexual orientation, the artist recently came out as pansexual. "Being a queer black woman in America, someone who has been in relationships with both men...
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