Happy Sunday #BlavityFam! Enjoy the springtime weather and your Sunday afternoon with some of our favorite long-reads from the past week. Get into Blavity’s take on “Bernie Bros”, the trippy mind-set of Young Thug, or some sobering thoughts on religion and the church. No one will ever be able to say that you’re not informed. Check out our picks below and let us know what you’ve been reading in the comments!

1. We Need to Talk About the Bernie Bros Throwing Black People Under the Bus (via Blavity)

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Blavity contributors Shane Bernard and Erin Logan grapple with the pressure coming from the ardent supporters of Bernie Sanders, and how the “Bernie Bros” tactics towards people of color are doing more harm than help for the Democratic candidate’s chances.

2. Author Helen Oyeyemi on the Politics—or Not—of Writing Black Female Characters (via Broadly)

Helen Oyeyemi, author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What is Yours is Not Yours spoke with Vice Media’s new feminist vertical about writing, the themes that link her novels, and truthfully representing women’s and racial issues in her work.

3. Young Thug is an ATLien (via GQ)

Devin Friedman went to Atlanta to interview Young Thug- well, he tried. After spending 20 hours observing the 24 year old rapper, Friedman writes that “if Thug can teach us one thing, it’s what a deep, profound, disquieting, beautiful, attractively nihilistic thing—what a generationally and musically significant thing—it is to reach the state of NOT GIVING A FUCK.”

4. All Hail Lil’ Kim, the Original Queen of Hip Hop (via Medium)

Prolific Twitter presence Feminista Jones takes you to class with her reflections on the significance of Lil’ Kim’s career and her importance to the black women and girls who love hip hop- even when it didn’t always love them back.

5. To Be Black, Southern and Unchurched (via Blavity)

Blavity’s Joshua Everett wrestles with the obligation to go to church, and his disillusionment with the routines he was expected to fulfill. He writes, “breaking up with the church is something I come to more peace with every day because I know in my heart of hearts it is not a rejection of the values I was taught, rather a reinterpretation”

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