Zak Cheney-Rice

Zak is a senior staff writer at Mic.

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Colin Kaepernick featured in Nike “Just Do It” 30th anniversary campaign, along with Serena Williams

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Black legislator gets police called on her while canvassing her own district on Fourth of July eve

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Eugene Rice was lynched in 1918. This April, I drove to southern Georgia to learn if he was family.

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My mother left Tennessee in 1968. Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, she came back.

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Is Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’ the endgame of the revolution that blaxploitation started?

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Philadelphia Eagles players are already refusing to visit Donald Trump’s White House

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America is covered in Confederate statues. We can do better — and here’s how.

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Martin McDonagh always used black characters as props. In ‘Three Billboards,’ it caught up with him.

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A racist who only sees “green” is the oldest kind

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Iowa senator spends Martin Luther King Jr. holiday defending racist president

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Trump successfully goads the world into debating whether Africa is a “shithole”

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Not everyone you like has to run for president

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Erica Garner’s legacy is already being co-opted

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Is this what black Alabamians died for?

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Mary Norwood denies she is a Republican. Her behavior since Atlanta’s election is hurting her case.

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Why are media outlets so fascinated by how normal Nazis are?

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How LiAngelo Ball fell into Donald Trump’s race trap

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This ‘Atlantic’ essay is trying really hard to convince you that Republicans aren’t racist

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Marvel gave indigenous director Taika Waititi its worst franchise in ‘Thor.’ He turned it around.

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A white man allegedly killed 26 people at a Texas church, and white Americans will be fine