Dear Black Americans,

If someone behind a meme account is convincing you to hate others more than you love us(🖤🔱❤️), you’re being poisoned.

Proposal Black American Reparations:
1. cancel all Black home mortgages
2. cancel all Black credit card debt and college debt
3. cancel all future Black tax payments
4. cancel all outstanding Black auto payments
5. release prisoners (all races) currently jailed/imprisoned for non-violent drug crimes

Nikki Giovanni understood that Black American cultural history was, in part, the inevitable result of centuries-long oppression—but that it was also the product of constant evolution, writes Hannah Giorgis:

Rest in power Queen
Black American culture
A photo journal
Part 7
Featuring Queen Mother Nikki Giovani