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Robyn Banks Wants a Lot More Queer Black Talent at Your Nightlife Event

Editor’s note: Robyn Banks plans to close out Black History Month 2022 with a bang. As both a fierce drag performer and the Impulse Group NYC’s Events Director, Banks is launching a one-of-a-kind variety show for POC talent at Hush in Hell’s Kitchen on Sunday, Feb. 27. Called “Black and[…]

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Music
Watch David Bowie Teach a Masterclass in Allyship 101

Amidst the important conversations we’ve been having about racism and allyship in this country, a 1983 interview between David Bowie and VJ Mark Goodman, where the two discuss the lack of Black artists on MTV, has recently resurfaced. Watch David Bowie in this clip below: The interview is excellent. Bowie[…]

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History
Read Martin Luther King Jr.’s Advice to a Closeted Teen

10 years before the Stonewall uprising, Martin Luther King Jr. gave advice to a scared, closeted teen… but was it good advice?

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History
Watch These 6 Native American Teens Tell the True Story of Thanksgiving

Despite its modern celebration as an excuse to gorge ourselves into food comas, Thanksgiving is actually a pretty morbid reminder of American ruthlessness

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