Beyoncé is more than just an unwitting tool of the patriarchy. Photograph: Jordan Strauss / Invision / AP Photograph: Jordan Strauss/Jordan Strauss/Invision/APBeyoncé is more than just an unwitting tool of the patriarchy. Photograph: Jordan Strauss / Invision / AP Photograph: Jordan Strauss/Jordan Strauss/Invision/APRoxane Gay columnBeyoncé This article is more than 9 years oldBeyoncé's control of her own image belies the bell hooks 'slave' critiqueThis article is more than 9 years oldRoxane GayWomen have to believe that we can hold different points of view without labeling each other bad feminists

Oklahoma This article is more than 2 months oldCarlton Pearson, megachurch founder who supported gay rights and rejected hell, dies aged 70This article is more than 2 months oldPearson’s church once had 6,000 members, and his story was chronicled on This American Life and later became a Netflix film The founder of a former megachurch in Oklahoma who was branded a heretic and lost one audience – but gained a new one – after he rejected the idea of hell and supported gay rights has died, his agent said on Monday.

The ObserverBiography booksReviewA portrait of the novelist’s German wife explores the price paid for inspiring her man The author of Lady Chatterley’s Lover wasn’t just skilled at constructing morally charged studies of the human condition. He was also nifty enough with a needle and thread to whip up a pair of calico bloomers and trim a hat. He wasn’t averse to scrubbing a kitchen floor either and when stripping a lover during an alfresco tryst, he’d be sure to fold her clothes neatly as he went.

Pennsylvania This article is more than 8 years oldPennsylvania officer who fatally shot unarmed man in back cleared of murderThis article is more than 8 years oldLisa Mearkle, 37, of Hummelstown police, said she feared for her safetyDavid Kassick, 59, was shot dead as he lay face down after traffic stopA small-town police officer who fatally shot an unarmed motorist in the back as he lay face down on the ground was acquitted on Thursday at her murder trial.

OpinionSerena Williams This article is more than 1 year oldSerena Williams showed the world that black women excel. That has changed us allThis article is more than 1 year oldAfua HirschBorn in the same year as the tennis champion, I watched her face countless obstacles – and become the greatest of all time We don’t deserve Serena Williams. Nothing about this world makes it likely that a little black girl from Compton – now “evolving” away from professional competition after her final match at the US Open – would become an indisputable Goat.