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Tiempos de la Chica Negra

Nuestro blog, Black Girl Times, ofrece a los creativos negros una plataforma para hablar de sus experiencias y de las de las chicas negras del sur, de las mujeres (en particular, pero no exclusivamente) y de las personas no conformes con el género en el sitio web de The Lighthouse. A través de este proyecto, los creativos utilizan la escritura, la fotografía y otros medios para subrayar la misión de la organización, elevando aún más esas voces en asuntos que van desde la justicia reproductiva hasta la música, la justicia económica y la cultura pop. Además, compartimos información importante para nuestra comunidad y para aquellos, igualmente, privados de derechos. Decimos con orgullo que nuestro objetivo no es dar noticias, ya hay gente que lo hace. Queremos asegurarnos de que la gente de nuestras comunidades sepa cómo las noticias de los medios de comunicación tradicionales afectan a su vida cotidiana.

Web BGX Zine Summer 2022 spreads

Equipo editorial

Natalie A. Collier

Editor in Chief

LaTanya Lane

Managing Editor

Adam Lynch

News Editor

Perdita Patrice

Culture Editor

Sirita Render

Director creativo

Joecephus Martin

Photographer/Videographer

Sarah Jené

Design Assistant

Haile Cole

Editor colaborador

Madison Meeks

Sports Writer

Sykina Butts

Danielle Buckingham

Jammie Garrett 

Jessiree Jenkins  

Jaylin Jones

Ashlee Kelly

Tysianna Marino 

Jeanette Miller

Ste’Aira Thomas

Personal del Faro

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Kia Sullivan

Asistente Editorial

 

 

septiembre 27, 2022

On Pancakes

The older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve enjoyed cooking. I’ve always been a pretty good cook, but I haven’t always enjoyed it. There’s a ceremony, a ritual to it I embrace now. Besides that, preparing meals appeals to the design and style parts of me. Though I often do it alone, I like to make...
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septiembre 24, 2022

The Power of Punctuation

      The Power of Punctuation Toni Morrison said, “We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” This punctuation day, I am thinking about how Black women writers use punctuation to do language their way, particularly, the poets. These women use...
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septiembre 22, 2022

Union Power Growing in the Wake of Covid, Public Opinion

The U.S. has not been a union-friendly nation in the last few decades, and union membership continues to decline in some sectors. However, unions appear to be entering the autumn season on a fierce note. Workers can thank the economy that bounced back from the COVID epidemic for a flurry of successful organization attempts. Plummeting...
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septiembre 20, 2022

A Tale of One City…

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septiembre 20, 2022

Biggest Lessons Learned from Freshman Year

Many people have asked me how my freshman year in college went, and I simply say, “It went,” because I don’t know how to categorize it. I’ve had many highs, and several lows. It’s taken me the entire summer to process my freshman year, and as I think about it, Karyn White’s song “Superwoman,” often...
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septiembre 14, 2022

Black Women Access the American Dream Overseas

Black Americans with college degrees and financial resources are moving beyond American shores. The U.S. is no longer the epitome of easy living as other nations modernize, and some middle class Black professionals have discovered they can better enjoy their lives and grow their wealth elsewhere. Thirty-seven-year-old Asha Farrah and 42-year-old Nancy Caroline both came...
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septiembre 2, 2022

Just a little bit…

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septiembre 1, 2022

Racism Brings Mississippi’s Capital to its Knees

  After decades of siphoning away the City of Jackson’s tax base the state of Mississippi must now come to terms with the capital city’s inability to repair its water system. The city is moving into its fifth week without safe drinking water due to a malfunctioning water treatment plant and decaying infrastructure, and now...
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septiembre 1, 2022

Welcome to September!

It used to be pretty common when someone might ask another “What’s your dream job?” the other person would respond with a point where their passion or hobby met an opportunity to make money. If you’re a millennial—elder millennial, as they call us in our late 30s, early 40s—a generation older and maybe even younger....
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agosto 29, 2022

5th Circuit Upholds Jim Crow

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals said a Mississippi’s Jim Crow law keeping nearly 16% of Black residents from voting should stay on the books. The court affirmed a lower court ruling keeping the state constitutional provision intact, despite the language being inserted by unabashed racists targeting Black residents for disenfranchisement. The current provision places...
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agosto 25, 2022

Positive Results in Michigan After Teen Incarcerations

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called for a commission to decrease adolescent presence in Michigan’s justice system after a controversial arrest and budget issues. The state of Michigan made headlines for all the wrong reasons in 2020 after it detained a 15-year-old Black student for failing to complete her online schoolwork. Authorities had previously put the...
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agosto 23, 2022

As Suicide Rates Increase, Youth Advocates Say Texas Juvenile Justice System Beyond Repair

Martin A. Martinez, Youth Justice Policy Advocate for Texas Appleseed. The juvenile justice system in Texas is woefully understaffed and badly managed, and this is driving up suicide attempts among its underaged incarcerated population. Federal investigators were scrutinizing the state’s Juvenile Department last year, but lingering staffing shortages and failed reforms are taking a toll...
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agosto 23, 2022

“Nope” is a Black Western and a Family Movie

I returned to the movie theater for the first time in three years—the last thing I clearly remember seeing is “Aquaman”—to see Jordan Peele’s latest film, “Nope.” This film made my return worth the wait. I won’t write any spoilers in this, but there are two things that stood out to me. “Nope” is a...
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agosto 18, 2022

Rediscovering the Value of Telling Slave Stories Through Barry Jenkins’ ‘The Underground Railroad’

Before watching “The Underground Railroad,” now streaming on Amazon Prime, I first saw the show’s companion piece, “An Act of Seeing: Barry Jenkins’s The Gaze,” at the Museum of Moving Images. The exhibit’s standout feature was a compilation of moving-image portraits of the series’ cast, staring directly at the camera as life carries on behind...
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agosto 6, 2022

Be right back!

An important part of self-care is rest, so that’s what we’re doing this week! There won’t be any updates or new posts for the week of August 8-12, but we will be back to our regularly scheduled programming on Monday, August 15. In the meantime, catch up on any of the content you might have...
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agosto 2, 2022

Mississippi Legislators are Sneaking Millions in Subsidies to Segregation Schools

"They came back and, without the knowledge of most of the legislature, they changed the bill to take half of that funding away from children in foster care and give it to children in private schools.”
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agosto 1, 2022

Welcome Black to School!

August is a significant month in many of our lives for a myriad reasons. For some, we’re preparing for the start of school—choosing the best ‘fit, deciding how deep we want the side part to be or wondering how we’ll deal with that clique of girls we somehow avoided online but now we’ll be seeing...
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julio 29, 2022

“Good Luck to You, Leo Grande” is About the Search for Pleasure and Much More

You hardly ever see truly sexy movies anymore. Today’s studios focus on blockbusters with three hour run times and comic book characters who don’t seem to have any desire to do anything other than destroy cities as they try to save the world. Where’s the passion, romance, intimacy, or just good ol’ sexual tension and...
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julio 27, 2022

“We Own This City” Returns to Baltimore to Tackle Police Brutality

“We Own This City,” written and created by David Simon, now streaming on HBO Max, represents an evolution of public sentiment toward law enforcement. Television, it seems, is finally depicting the abuse of power minority communities have experienced from police for decades. Things have certainly come a long way since fawning post-9/11 police dramas like...
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julio 25, 2022

After the Smoke Clears: What’s Changed, Two Years after Breonna Taylor’s Murder?

I’m disillusioned but still hopeful.  It was surreal to see my birthplace of Louisville, Ky., plastered across news outlets. In March 2020, Louisville Metro Police Detectives (LMPD) Brett Hankinson, John Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove murdered 26-year-old Breonna Taylor in her home during a botched police raid. Nothing illegal was found on Taylor or at her...
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julio 19, 2022

OP-ED: Police-Free Schools Are Critical to Reproductive Freedom

By Briana Perry and Cierra Kaler-Jones   On Friday, the Supreme Court leveraged the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision to strike down Roe v. Wade. This devastating ruling allows states to ban safe and legal abortion at any stage of pregnancy. It’s estimated that at least 26 states are certain or likely to...
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