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Renée Graham

Renée Graham

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Trump hung out with an acquitted killer anointed as a right-wing hero. Where’s the outrage?

At a high-profile event, Daniel Penny, who killed Jordan Neely, took a public victory lap with the next president.

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‘We can only save ourselves’

After another year of violence, the trans community feels as if it’s been left to fend for itself.

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Warmed by the life that Nikki Giovanni lived

Nikki Giovanni was as fine a poet as any nation has ever produced. She also was an activist, a teacher, an intellectual, and a social commentator.

12.12.2024 4

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This holiday season’s most talked about gift — presidential pardons

And no, Donald Trump should not get one.

10.12.2024 5

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The escalating war on trans lives

Trump’s election win is heightening fears that anti-trans laws and violence will increase.

08.12.2024 10

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Black Republicans get played again

By 8 to 1, there are more billionaires than there are Black people in Donald Trump’s proposed Cabinet.

05.12.2024 6

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‘Anticipatory obedience’ is already a contender for 2025′s word of the year

There’s a grotesque scramble to appease Trump’s good side — even though he doesn’t have one.

03.12.2024 6

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Celebrating Thanksgiving when there’s little to celebrate

Don’t get me wrong. I’m looking forward to spending time with friends over the next few days. My misery craves company, and both will be abundant.

28.11.2024 10

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For Republicans, private grousing about Trump turns into public complicity

With a second Trump presidency weeks away, the GOP will again be defined by its cowardice.

26.11.2024 10

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Disqualifying, extreme, and incompetent — Trump’s DEI Cabinet picks

This isn’t a presidential transition. It’s a national stress test to see if democracy will continue to bend or finally break.

24.11.2024 20

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House Republicans’ anti-trans bathroom rules should be flushed down the toilet

Representative Nancy Mace’s anti-trans bathroom crusade is about hate, not bathrooms.

21.11.2024 5

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America’s great white reckoning again

With Trump’s election, this nation has retreated into a swamp infested with rancor and division.

19.11.2024 7

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President Biden should pardon his son Hunter

With a weaponized Justice Department, Trump’s retribution agenda won’t stop with political opponents and their families.

17.11.2024 10

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A postelection life as a social media nomad

Ideally, we'd all flee social media entirely, but I know that's not going to happen.

14.11.2024 8

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The hypocritical politics of identity politics

When marginalized groups speak up, they’re accused of playing the identity card. But white voters and politicians always get a pass.

12.11.2024 5

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What Donald Trump could learn from Quincy Jones

The legendary producer often talked about how checking his ego and letting go of anger made him a better collaborator, artist, and person.

10.11.2024 10

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America f-ed around. Now, it’s about to find out.

A majority of American voters have spoken. And they have chosen this nation’s demise.

07.11.2024 9

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It’s not a bad sign for Harris that the race is so close

Trump had a four-year head start on the vice president’s campaign.

03.11.2024 10

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How I learned to stop worrying and to appreciate Halloween

A small plastic pumpkin has given my mind both a safe place and a different appreciation of a day that means so much to so many.

31.10.2024 4

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Donald Trump hates America

And he will ultimately destroy it if he’s elected president again.

29.10.2024 5

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The loneliness of the non-swing state voter

We don’t get rallies, coffee shop stops, or selfies with this nation’s next president.

27.10.2024 10

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What it takes for men to recognize the reality of sexual assault — other men as victims

It’s sadly predictable that women who accuse men of sexual assault aren’t as readily believed as men who make similar allegations.

24.10.2024 4

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The media’s toxic affair with Trump

Call it normalizing or "sanewashing," but covering the former president as if he’s an ordinary nominee is journalistic malpractice.

22.10.2024 5

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Can Michelle Obama help seal the deal for Kamala Harris?

After keeping a low profile, the former first lady will reportedly campaign for the vice president in Atlanta.

20.10.2024 6

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The Pentagon is finally giving LGBTQ former service members honor and respect

It is impossible to explain the indelible harm inflicted on those who were punished simply because they wanted to both serve their country and be true...

17.10.2024 4

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Finding solace from politics in baseball’s playoffs

Like the Democrats, my NY Mets are in a position that seemed impossible in the spring — a shot at victory this fall.

15.10.2024 5

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The unending fight for — and against — voting rights

Long gone are "jelly bean" tests. The latest voter suppression tactics are openly endorsed by the Republican presidential nominee.

13.10.2024 20

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Kamala Harris claps back at Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s ‘humble’ criticism

With Election Day only weeks away, Republicans will continue the sexist and racist attacks on Harris that began when she announced her candidacy.

11.10.2024 5

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Hurricane Helene’s other devastating aftermath — a flood of Trump lies

Politicizing a tragedy isn’t enough for Donald Trump. He’s spewing false and outlandish claims about the federal response.

08.10.2024 20

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Pete Rose and Dikembe Mutombo were great athletes. Only one of them was a great man.

Selflessness defined the basketball star’s life. The legacy of baseball’s hit king is more complicated.

06.10.2024 30

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Remembering the ‘Good Times’ of John Amos — television’s first Black father

James personified the Black man’s struggle in America in a way previously unseen by TV audiences.

03.10.2024 7

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Kamala Harris is ready. And America, perhaps, is ready too.

In less than three months, the vice president has already surpassed all expectations and proven many of her most ardent doubters wrong.

01.10.2024 5

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Diversity is America’s greatest strength. But now a lot of people find it threatening.

Sadly, Republicans’ relentless demonization of a multicultural nation may be working.

29.09.2024 10

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What has Janet Jackson done for us lately? She’s spreading lies about Kamala Harris.

Jackson should show a little grace to Harris by apologizing for mischaracterizing the vice president’s well-established racial identity.

26.09.2024 4

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Trump has vowed revenge against his GOP ‘enemies.’ But some are endorsing Harris anyway.

Perhaps — just perhaps — it’s a sign that the former president is losing his grip as his party’s standard-bearer.

24.09.2024 10

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Why no one is defending Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs

From Bill Cosby to Donald Trump, powerful men accused of sexual assault often have many supporters. Not in this case.

22.09.2024 10

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Donald Trump and the damage being done

Springfield, Ohio, is only the latest casualty of the former president’s lies and hateful pursuit of power.

18.09.2024 20

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Country music’s gatekeepers didn’t snub Beyoncé. They shortchanged themselves.

The CMAs left out 2024′s best-selling country album. That's bad business.

15.09.2024 20

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James Earl Jones was more than just a singular voice

Few films of its day have offered such a heartrending and honest portrayal of everyday Black people as "Claudine".

12.09.2024 5

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How low will Donald Trump go?

There’s no line the former president won’t cross, no lie he won’t spread, and no threat of political revenge too extreme.

10.09.2024 7

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After a deadly school shooting, gun reform makes a campaign comeback

Immigration and the economy have dominated the presidential race. Gun violence should be back on the ballot too.

08.09.2024 10

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Concertgoing is the essence of fandom. Ticketmaster is making it impossible.

Ticket prices and sleazy scams are making this indelible part of loving music nearly impossible for too many.

05.09.2024 3

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Why age is no longer an issue in the presidential election

Donald Trump’s behavior is so abhorrent that his age has been reduced to nothing but a number.

03.09.2024 6

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(Almost) everything I know about life, I learned from ‘The Rockford Files’

Beyoncé has the BeyHive. Taylor Swift has Swifties. I am a Rockford-phile.

30.08.2024 10

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How politics devoured our summer

The old adage that no one pays attention to elections until after Labor Day evaporated faster than Donald Trump’s lead in the polls.

27.08.2024 5

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Doug Emhoff is Kamala Harris’s secret weapon

By showing the vice president in a relatable light, her affable husband is an asset in her political rise.

22.08.2024 10

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The diminished Donald Trump

Now it’s Trump who’s coming undone even more than usual.

22.08.2024 9

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At the DNC, Jesse Jackson gets his flowers

Even silenced by illness, the civil rights icon again brought a convention crowd to its feet and to tears.

20.08.2024 9

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Trying mightily — and failing miserably — to manage my election expectations

After much of the year in the doldrums, it feels good to be cautiously optimistic about Kamala Harris’s chances.

18.08.2024 8

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Why is it always *that* antigay slur that men often use when angry at another man?

Even in a moment of sudden provocation, an antigay slur doesn’t find it’s way to the tip of an angry tongue unless that term is regularly used or...

15.08.2024 6

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