LGBTQ Read this powerful essay about mustaches, Blackness, and masculinity. Thom Dunn

twitter Conservative trolls pretending to be black on Twitter "sad" and "obvious" Rob Beschizza

Republicans Obama was "raised white", says Ben Carson Rob Beschizza

Innovation How rivalry between two Japanese companies in the 1950s led to the world's best pencils Ellsworth Toohey

books How the Black psychedelic revolution can heal and liberate Allan Rose Hill

News Pandering news hosts called out Jason Weisberger

twitter Once-popular Hercules actor making everyone cringe by demanding VP Harris prove her Blackness with racist slur Mark Frauenfelder

laughing stocks Donald Trump gets mocked after racist remarks with viral hashtag: "#WhenITurnedBlack" Carla Sinclair

mistakes MAGA dork tweets from wrong account Rob Beschizza

Science Image of the Earth from a million miles away during the recent solar eclipse David Pescovitz

Comic Books "The Buildings are Barking": Cartoonist Bill Griffith's haunting graphic eulogy to his cartoonist wife, Diane Noomin Ruben Bolling

music Black Thought's "Dear Hip Hop," an ode to global Hip Hop Elías Villoro

National Football League Resources that shine a critical light on the NFL Jennifer Sandlin

books Checking out the Black Speculative Arts Movement Elías Villoro

music Pass the Sault Elías Villoro

facial recognition Artists disrupting facial recognition technologies Jennifer Sandlin

Space William Shatner: Actually, going to space was a huge bummer David Pescovitz

photography Annie Leibovitz criticized for her photos of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jennifer Sandlin

afrofuturism Mark Dery on the "everything, all at once" art and life of Jean-Michel Basquiat Gareth Branwyn

dupe Fascinating: Listen to this 1966 radio commercial for a new TV show called "Star Trek" Mark Frauenfelder