Nylah Burton is a sexual assault survivor advocate and a student from Howard University. Follow her on Twitter, @yumcoconutmilk.
Nylah Burton
By Nylah Burton
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Opinion The Hypocrisy Of Lee Zeldin’s Attack Against Ilhan Omar
On Friday, Congressman Lee Zeldin took to Twitter to release a reprehensible, vile, and hateful anti-Semitic voicemail he received from someone who targeted him for his Jewishness. This new VM just came into my office. @IlhanMN, this is just another day in my world as an American Jew in Congress. Would love to know what…
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Opinion Stop Invoking Heschel To Silence Black Jews
When it comes to issues of race and racism, we live in tumultuous, conflict-ridden times. Often in the media and sometimes in our daily lives, we don’t see positive examples of cross-racial or cross-cultural solidarity. So it’s understandable that we would highlight the positive examples of this solidarity when we’re given the opportunity to do…
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Opinion Your Racism Is Showing When You Tear Down The Women’s March
I have never been an ardent supporter of the Women’s March. The trans-exclusionary elements of the march, including the famous pink pussy hats, coupled with Tamika Mallory’s embrace of Louis Farrakhan — unacceptable for a leader of a national movement — meant that as a black Jewish woman who abhors trans-exclusionary feminism, the Women’s March…
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Opinion Lena Dunham Embodies The Racism Of White Feminism
This Wednesday, Lena Dunham, creator of the HBO series “Girls,” published an open letter in which she apologized for lying to discredit a rape survivor. In November 2017, Aurora Perrineau, a biracial black woman, filed a police report claiming that “Girls” writer Murray Miller raped her when she was 17 — and he was 35….
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Opinion Trashing Marc Lamont Hill Won’t Help Israel Or The Jews
On Wednesday, CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill was fired from CNN for comments he made about Israel during a United Nations Meeting for The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. During this meeting, Hill echoed a phrase that is common in the Palestinian liberation movement: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will…
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Opinion Legitimate Criticism Of The Women’s March Was Drowned Out By Racism
It’s undeniable that the Women’s March has made mistakes that are unbecoming of global leaders. Tamika Mallory’s support of Louis Farrakhan is distasteful in its tenacity and its ingratiating nature. Her calling him “The Greatest of All Time,” and responding to her critics by saying she had “the same enemies of Jesus,” has been incredibly…
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Opinion What Happened To This Black Jew Was A Lynch Mob In The Making
On Monday morning, a black Jewish man named Yehudah Webster survived a lynch mob of in Crown Heights. Yes, I said lynch mob. The thugs in question were Chasidic men and Chasidic private security who used their vehicles to block Yehudah from leaving beacuse they were suspicious of him having a Torah scroll. In this…
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Opinion After Pittsburgh Shooting, Black Jews Feel Isolated From The Jewish Community
On October 27, 11 Jews were murdered at the hands of a white nationalist named Robert Bowers. When I heard the news of this horrific defilement, I felt paralyzed with fear and despair. I cried and said Kaddish, the prayer for the dead, as my partner held me. Upon hearing the news of the attack,…
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