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The world has always wanted to move on from Jamal Khashoggi’s murder

(Zoe van Dijk for The Washington Post) Opinion The world has always wanted to move on from Jamal Khashoggi’s murder ...

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Let Black boys grow their hair

Darryl George, 17, a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, Texas, on Sept. 10. (Darresha George via AP) Listen 5 min ...

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All praise the drag queens of Texas

Penny Cilyn of the United Court of the Lone Star Empire reads during Sunday service at the Cathedral of Hope on Aug. 17. (Karen Attiah/The Washington...

22.09.2023 10

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Readers respond: Stopping male violence against gay people and women

Photographs of gun-violence victims are seen at a demonstration in Fairfax, Va., on Aug. 4. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post) ...

15.09.2023 2

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Black women keep getting beaten in public. How should we respond?

(iStock) Listen 6 min Share Comment on this story Comment Happy Friday! I hope everyone else’s...

09.09.2023 40

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Why do men kill women’s plants?

The fig tree outside the home of Karen Attiah's parents. From left, before it was butchered, after it was butchered, and the way it looks today....

01.09.2023 2

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Arm the gays? Unfortunately, the culture war is more than a metaphor.

A memorial outside the Mag.pi clothing store in Cedar Glen, Calif., where owner Laura Ann Carleton was killed on Aug. 21. (Robyn Beck/AFP) ...

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Blindsided by reporting about ‘The Blind Side.’ But should we be?

From left, Michael Oher, Collins Tuohy and Leigh Anne Tuohy, whose lives are portrayed in the Oscar-nominated movie "The Blind Side," speak with...

18.08.2023 3

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How the U.S. would cover U.S. credit woes, if they happened elsewhere

The U.S. Capitol on Nov. 7, 2022. (J. David Ake/AP) Listen 4 min Comment on this story Comment Gift...

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Massacres and museums: Education or exploitation?

People work on a message to display during the centennial of Tulsa's race massacre in May 2021. (Joshua Lott for The Washington Post) ...

28.07.2023 9

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Trying that in a small town

Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Viola Ford Fletcher, right, is joined by her grandson Ike Howard while speaking during an interview with the Associated...

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Men are not okay

Vernon AME Church pastor Robert Turner speaks through a megaphone as he leads a protest for reparations on Nov. 18, 2020 in Tulsa, (Joshua Lott/The...

14.07.2023 2

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Readers speak: Are spirituality and science compatible?

This undated image provided by OceanGate Expeditions in June 2021 shows the company's Titan submersible. (AP) Listen 3 min ...

07.07.2023 10

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White women have helped sink the affirmative action ship

A person holds a sign in support of affirmative action during a rally on Oct. 31 in Washington. (Eric Lee for The Washington Post) ...

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Leave the deep ocean alone

A U.S. Coast Guard HC-130 flies over the French research vessel L'Atalante on Wednesday during the search for a missing submersible in the North...

23.06.2023 8

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Cornel West’s confusing approach to Black liberation

Cornel West speaks on Feb. 10, 2020, at a campaign rally for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in Durham, N.H. (Andrew Harnik/AP) Listen 5 min...

16.06.2023 3

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Pat Robertson dies, National Sex Day lives on

The Rev. Pat Robertson addresses the Christian Coalition “Road to Victory '98" conference in Washington on Sept. 18, 1998. (Roberto Borea/AP Photo) ...

09.06.2023 2

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The new Ariel is Black. May she be the first of many such heroines.

Halle Bailey as Ariel in a scene from Disney's "The Little Mermaid." (Disney/AP) Listen 5 min Comment on this story Comment ...

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Readers respond: Texas, guns, good neighbors and faith

A man wearing a patriotic-themed cowboy hat is seen at a gun-rights rally at the Texas Capitol in Austin in April 2018. (Eric Gay/AP) ...

03.06.2023 10

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Can we go one week without a tragedy in Texas?

A candlelight vigil in Uvalde, Tex., on Wednesday. (Eric Gay/AP Photo) Listen 5 min Comment on this story Comment ...

26.05.2023 8

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Nigeria should do what it wants with the Benin Bronzes

Examples of Benin bronzes are seen at the British Museum in London in January. (Toby Melville/Reuters) Listen 5 min Comment on...

26.05.2023 10

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Gun and abortion laws have made Texas a woman’s nightmare

(Washington Post staff illustration; photos by iStock/Getty Images) Listen 5 min Comment on this story Comment ...

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How to reckon with the cult of the gun

Robert Jackson consoles Cheryl Jackson at a makeshift memorial outside the Allen Premium Outlets in Allen, Tex., on May 8. (Jeffrey McWhorter for The...

12.05.2023 10

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After the Texas mall massacre, I witnessed a different sort of death

Mourners place flowers on a makeshift memorial in Allen, Tex., on May 7. (Jeffrey McWhorter for The Washington Post) Listen 5 min ...

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Welcome home to (violent) America

Law enforcement officers arrive near the scene of an active shooter on Wednesday in Atlanta. (Alex Slitz/AP) Listen 6 min Comment...

05.05.2023 4

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Readers speak: Defending, and criticizing, Kamala Harris

Vice President Harris in the Vice President Ceremonial Office of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on April 11. (Demetrius Freeman/The...

21.04.2023 8

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Let me upgrade you ...

Vice President Harris visits Panuka farms outside Lusaka, Zambia, on Saturday. (Angela Nandeka/AP) Listen 5 min Comment on this...

07.04.2023 9

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The LSU-Iowa backlash shows what Black female athletes are up against

Iowa Hawkeyes guard Caitlin Clark and LSU Tigers forward Angel Reese after the final round of the Women's Final Four NCAA tournament in Dallas on...

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Vice President Harris goes to Africa. Color me unimpressed.

Vice President Harris delivers a speech at Kotoka International Airport on March 26 in Accra, Ghana. (Ernest Ankomah/Getty Images) ...

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How’d I go from global policy to Joe Rogan?

A Columbia University campus bookstore in New York this month. (Bing Guan/Bloomberg News) Listen 4 min Gift Article ...

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Hold my De Beers

Listen 7 min Gift Article Share If there’s one thing I love reading, writing and tweeting about, it’s gems and...

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Raquel Evita Saraswati and the racial impostor problem

(Washington Post illustration; iStock) Listen 7 min Gift Article Share Let’s talk about a literal...

10.03.2023 30

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Black pain, Ghana’s gain?

Viola Fletcher, 108, and Hughes Van Ellis, 102, are sworn in as citizens of Ghana at the Embassy of Ghana in D.C. on Tuesday. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The...

03.03.2023 20

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Naive hope is at the heart of Black History Month

Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) in the Civil Rights Room in the Nashville Public Library on Nov. 18, 2016. (Mark Humphrey/AP) Gift Article ...

24.02.2023 9

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It’s Ms. Rihanna ... if you’re nasty

Rihanna during the Super Bowl halftime show on Feb. 12 in Glendale, Ariz. (Jeff Lewis/AP) Gift Article Share ...

17.02.2023 5

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Rihanna’s Super Bowl show was spectacular. And a huge sellout.

Rihanna performs during the Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Listen Comment on this story ...

13.02.2023 10

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We’re stealing zoo animals now?

A Dallas police vehicle sits at an entrance to the Dallas Zoo on Jan. 13. (Shakfat Anowar/The Dallas Morning News/AP) Gift Article ...

10.02.2023 5

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Black History Month is, uh, not off to a great start

Gift Article Share If I could explain Black History Month 2023 in one GIF, it would be this: Me walking into Black History...

03.02.2023 20

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The endless video loop of Black death is doing more harm than good

People hold signs during a news conference on Tuesday in Memphis discussing the death of Tyre Nichols. (Jeff Roberson/AP) Listen ...

01.02.2023 8

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Here’s what I think of Mike Pompeo’s craven smearing of Jamal Khashoggi

Then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, meets with King Salman at Al Salam Palace in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on June 24, 2019. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)...

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Florida is offering an advanced lesson in anti-Blackness

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in November. (AP Photo/John Locher) Listen Comment on this story Comment Gift...

24.01.2023 3

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Boston’s ‘Embrace’ holds fast to the whitewashed view of MLK

People view the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial statue, "The Embrace," at Boston Common on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. (C.J....

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Muscles are no match for misogyny in the world of women’s bodybuilding

As a kid growing up in the 1990s, I was fascinated by pop cultural images of women and girls who possessed superhuman strength. There was Pippi...

16.01.2023 10

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Why AI is like a performance-enhancing steroid

A few weeks ago, I had dinner with some friends. One of them pulled out his phone and asked me if I thought I had written more than 200 pieces or so...

13.01.2023 10

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Yes, race matters when we talk about NFL injuries

Happy new year! So, friends: I had all intention of starting 2023 on a softer, easeful note. Alas, for the first full week of the year, I’ve been...

06.01.2023 5

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