By Tilesha Brown, Special to the AFRO Irène P. Mathieu was a featured poet at the recent Virginia Festival of the Book. At the New Dominion Book Shop, in downtown Charlottesville, she read to a room full of both fans of her work and new supporters in a program called “Root & Tendril: A Poetry Reading.” […]
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No, White Ladies of Virginia Tech, You Can Not Use the N-Word
The women of Virginia Tech’s lacrosse team were apparently feeling themselves after beating Elon on March 24. Someone on the team posted a video of group of apparently all White women singing along to Lil’ Dicky’s recent hit “Freaky Friday,” which prominently features the n-word. The Virginia Tech women’s lacrosse team is in hot water […]
