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We live entwined with a deafening amount of inequality, unmatched in human history.

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If you are living from your heart and soul, I know how you feel. You are heartbroken, you are furious, and you feel like a fire has been lit underneath you.

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Every now and then there are films that manage to tell the kind of stories this world needs more of. Queen & Slim is one of those films.

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You feel like your life is shattering around you, splintering in the wake of chaos.  You feel like you are dancing on broken glass, shards jutting into the tender soles of your feet.

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Here’s the thing: just as deciding upon a course of action is a choice, tuning out is also a choice. If this is a choice you can afford to make, without fear of missing something that will directly affect you or your family, something on which you need to take action right away or else you’re screwed, you are lucky.

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Among young ethnic minorities, hip-hop is perhaps the most popular medium for challenging the twin burdens of entrenched injustice and pervasive privilege.

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I’m not sad. Being sad is a passive emotion. I’m disgusted. I’m sickened. I’m angry.

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The laws and methods aimed at curtailing sexual assault generate political capital for politicians, but lack empirical data to prove their accuracy.