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Tank and Zena Foster Open Up About On-Off Love Story
When some people find the love of their life, they are ready to lock them down immediately. Others, like R&B singer Tank, may need more time. For years, the crooner and his now wife of two years, Zena Foster, were unofficially committed to each other for over half a decade, even having a child together. The couple was finally ready to share their complicated love story with fans and sat down with OWN’s Black Love on June 4 to spill some tea on their boomerang relationship.
Nikole Hannah-Jones' Tenure Thwarted By White Fragility
Whiteness will always white. Rich whiteness will clorox. Nikole Hannah-Jones, the journalist we can credit for The 1619 Project, was considered for hire at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. A donor, Walter Hussman Jr., was concerned that Jones’ work did not give enough credit to white people and was not objective, reported HuffPost. Hussman donated $25 million to the school’s journalism program, and in typical fashion, the journalism department bears his name.
Mental Health App 'Calm' Supports Naomi Osaka
Calm, a mental health app, announced it was supporting tennis champion Naomi Osaka’s decision to decline media interviews during the French Open. Calm has offered to pay the fines of any athlete who opted out of the 2021 Grand Slam press conferences to preserve their mental health. Calm is also donating $15,000 to Laureus Sports, which also supports mental health. Naomi Osaka was named the 2021 Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year.
“It’s Gonna always Be about Race with You huh?”
Reflections on the gaslighting shit racist white friends say. Passive-aggression is still aggression Passively Racist as Hell White Friend:“It’s gonna always be about race with you huh?” Johnny S:“Look dude. It’s always about teeth to a dentist. It’s always about car parts to a mechanic. It’s always about English to an English teacher. Some people specialize in stuff. You’re gonna have to deal with that reality.
To White People, When a POC Points Out Your Privilege, Asks You to Stop, and You Feel Hella Defensive:
Best just to keep quiet, feel the burn, and pray for the knowledge and strength to understand and belong to this crazy world you secretly fear you have no place in.
My Challenge to White People This Week and Beyond
Inaction and silence are layers of this cycle of oppression. It takes strength and courage to educate oneself on things outside of your comfort zone. Photo credit: Shutterstock By Pete Cataldo It’s time to end this fallacy that if you aren’t wearing hoods or Swastikas and using the “n-word with hard-R,” it means you are absolved from the many layers of prejudice. Unfortunately, it’s much deeper and much more complex; and all of us have a role.
The Masks We Wear
I wear my mask of civility, of patience, of fear, all so I can ask for my life, please sir. I can’t breathe. Photo Credit: Shutterstock By Christian Curet I wear this mask to protect them, to make them feel safe protected from the fear you they’ve decided not to face But it’s not the virus they hate, it’s not the sickness they flee What I’m protecting them from is the fear of me.
Regina George And The YA Pile On
Sometimes the best we can do is stay out of it Photo by Lawless Capture on Unsplash Particularly when it’s a grey area, rather than a clear demarcation line between right and wrong the best we can do is not play into the “fragility of white women in need of protection” archetype. Right now there’s a situation where a white woman is crying “victim". Hello, Sarah Dessen.
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