American citizens leave the country for a number of reasons, including travel, adventure, and exciting careers, but in recent years the number of Black American expatriates of all kinds has surged.
Op-Ed
Audre Lord was a poet who described herself as "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet."
It's the dawn of autumn. And I love autumn in Seattle.
It's no secret that inequality is still deeply rooted in the American public school system. Academic achievement is still correlated to whiteness, and the gaps in performance between white and Asian students and Black and Latino students prove that.
For members of the LGBTQ community who also find themselves on the autistic spectrum, their intersecting identities can lead them to feel excluded from Queer spaces, due to a lack of understanding and access needs not being met.
Countless Black men, women, and children have been murdered by racist cops and civilians: Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Elijah McClain, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and many others. None of them received justice... until this year.
SGN Managing Editor A.V. Eichenbaum observes life in a post-9/11 world.
Texas' new abortion law went into effect, now making it a felony for anyone to receive or perform an abortion after just six weeks of gestation. How could this happen?
In 2011, Tyler Clementi's parents established the Tyler Clementi Foundation, which promotes acceptance of LGBTQ teens and others marginalized by society.
Cosplay — What is widely credited to modern Japanese culture was actually inspired by 15th-century masquerade balls and didn't actually start in Japan.