Culture

Comic: No, you did not turn out “just fine”

How prison-based thinking warps a lack of empathy for “deserving” victims to harm the vulnerable

Columbus activist Amber Evans is still missing over a month after her disappearance

80+ arrested during protests after D.A. refuses to charge officers who killed Stephon Clark

Black man finessed his way into the presidency of a neo-Nazi group, now vows to destroy it

Sweeping gun control bill passes House, but threatens undocumented migrants

Black integrity matters

Comic: Queer men don’t need straight men’s permission to be cute

Ole Miss basketball players kneel before game in protest of confederate rally in Oxford

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

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