It’s their world. We’re just voting in it.
This month — Black History Month — is seen as a time to recognize the achievements of African-Americans who played crucial roles in United States history, perhaps a time to celebrate progress. But this week, Erin Aubry Kaplan suggested that we should not look at this annual observance so narrowly. Instead, she writes, we should put it into context and “acknowledge what black history really reveals”: “Hundreds of years of codified oppression, groupthink, hypocrisy, lies and political cowardice have made possible, and palatable, the political oppression and moral corruption of the current moment that threatens to wipe out democracy for everybody.” — Alexandra March |
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Have you heard — and uttered — the word “billionaire” more this year than ever before? You’re not alone. In Wednesday night’s debate, “the word ‘billionaire’ came up more often than ‘China,’ America’s leading geopolitical competitor; ‘immigration,’ among its most contentious issues; and ‘climate,’ its gravest existential threat.” |
Still Fleeing Danger After Nearly 100 Years |
 | | The writer and her siblings returning to Argentina.Brea Souders |
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“In a nearby town where many of my family members lived, children were buried alive. My mother’s aunt stayed on the family vineyard. She, her husband and their five children disappeared off the face of the earth.” |
My Perpetual Search for Darkness |
 | | Wesley Allsbrook |
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You can’t escape the light — it’s everywhere now, in artificial form, reaching to illuminate every corner of the world. But it didn’t used to be like that; there was a time when you could see the Milky Way, a time when darkness would shroud everything and offer solitude — it could make you “feel weightless and free.” |
Why Black Women Develop Eating Disorders |
 | | With the deluge of imagery that associates beauty with whiteness, girls of color are primed not only to developing eating disorders, but also to see these disorders go untreated.Hassan Jarane/Photolibrary, via Getty Images Plus |
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There’s a shift that can happen when you don’t see yourself reflected in the masses — or you do, but the depiction is derided. Sometimes, it can be enough to make you want to disappear. |
Even When I’m Psychotic, I’m Still Me |
 | | Lilli Carré |
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