BE 2026

Listen: Moor Mother’s “Parallel Nightmares”

Thanksgiving is a complicated holiday, with a lot of heavy cultural baggage and the possibility of some hard conversations and awkward interactions with aunts and uncles. If you need a little reinforcement for the holiday, Moor Mother and her “Parallel Nightmares”—a song about the surrealistic horror of our sociopolitical circumstances—has your back.


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