Evette Dionne
MSNBC Columnist
Evette Dionne is a culture journalist, critic and editor who writes extensively about pop culture as it relates to race, gender and size. “Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box,” her middle-grade nonfiction book, was nominated for a National Book Award and won a Coretta Scott King Honor award. Her debut essay collection, “Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul,” was released in 2022.
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The lesson other comedians should take from “A Buteau-ful Mind” is that exceptional comedy can be welcoming and bright rather than exclusionary and hate-filled.
Laws like New Jersey’s Freedom to Read Act should be a signal to lawmakers and governors in more liberal states that it’s time to play offense.
Though some doctors have been trying to classify “obesity” as a “chronic illness,” being fat and being ill aren’t the same thing.
We’re going to need joy, rest and other softer survival skills to help fortify ourselves against the oppressive headwinds.
The DOJ’s decision to prosecute Pebbles LaDime Doe’s murderer is a step in the right direction and will hopefully deter others from targeting trans people with violence.
Ryan Murphy’s show depicts the brothers kissing and showering together, thereby intimating that their sibling relationship evolved into something romantic.
Diddy’s litany of alleged abuses couldn’t have happened without a conspiracy of silence.
Ventura’s trauma shouldn’t have to have been displayed on loop across television screens and the internet for her to be believed.
Morehouse students have not only expressed concern about Biden being the commencement speaker, but also at the plan to grant him an honorary degree.
It’s hard being the child of two of the world’s most famous artists, and people put a lot of pressure on the 11-year-old to perform as flawlessly as her mother does.
