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Sudanese president declares state of emergency amid widespread protests

Meet Ashton P. Woods, the millennial Black Lives Matter activist running for Houston City Council-At Large

Massive protests erupt in Brazil after Black 19-year-old Pedro Gonzaga killed while being restrained

11-year-old arrested at Florida school after refusing to stand for pledge of allegiance defends himself

NFL to settle collusion case with Colin Kaepernick

Wear Your Voice campaign aims to correct how the body positivity movement fails women of color

Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express expose decades of abuse by Southern Baptist leaders

Denver teachers on strike today after negotiations over more stable base salary stall out

21 Savage faces deportation after being arrested by ICE, who allege that he is a British National

Brooklyn jail facing protests after freezing temperatures made prisoners sick

How tourists make cultures like Salvador’s into “exotic” commodities for their consumption

Prominent Saudi Arabian women’s activist’s family says she is being tortured after arrest

After Israeli police kill Ethiopian woman, community rallies to protest anti-Blackness & police brutality

Oklahoma City school to be designed specifically for homeless students

Houston police union president threatens to track civilian anti-police rhetoric after cops shot

What Future’s fear of admitting his sobriety says about our unhealthy expectation for Black pain

The importance of reckoning with anti-Black bias in the white-dominated tech world

Angola removes colonial-era law that prohibited homosexuality

Zora Neale Hurston helped create 1st mass-produced Black doll that wasn’t just a painted white one

Turning the fight to save the environment into a fight for racial justice

Comic: When white people can’t imagine a world without colonization

Former prosecutor acquits 3 cops accused of falsifying reports in Laquan McDonald shooting

Sudan arrests 28 journalists in crack down on anti-government protests

Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal granted the right of appeal by Philadelphia judge

480,000 students affected as Los Angeles teachers go on strike for better wages, conditions

#Data4BlackLives conference highlights how technology and race interact

Voting rights restored to former felons in Florida, but lawmakers may add legal hurdles

Cyntoia Brown’s clemency is a glimmer of hope for Black girls and the ones who protect them

APA says ‘masculinity identity’ is linked to homophobia and misogyny in new report

Jameek Lowery went to cops for help, warned they’d kill him on FB live, then died in their custody

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