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13-year-old #1000BlackGirlBooks creator interviews 11-year-old March for Our Lives advocate about honoring Black girls

"Most of all, we agree that ignorance feeds violence, and so we are determined to spread awareness instead," 13-year-old Marley Dias wrote.

by Imani Jackson

Q-Tip will teach course on intersections of jazz & hip-hop at NYU this fall

UCPD’s shooting of student in mental health crisis highlights the academy’s role in police brutality

Bioethics prof Deleso Alford explains why MLK calling healthcare inequity the most ‘inhumane’ injustice matters today

Facing backlash, Grindr announces plan to stop sharing sensitive user info including HIV status

We need to prioritize Black girls in the conversation about police in schools

Apple proposes to include new emojis that reflect users’ lives with disabilities

Here’s how Facebook and Cambridge Analytica harvested data from 50 million users for conservative political ads

After Uber’s self-driving car kills a woman in Arizona, company halts self-driving car tests

Florida middle school teacher warns students not to date boys who act “like a n—-,” is suspended

Beloved young Chicago Principal Rob Croston passed away after complications from genetic disorder

3 tips for dealing with mental health issues exacerbated by anti-Blackness on college campuses

Hampton University students protest sexual assault, unsanitary dining conditions

Congressional empathy for post-Katrina communities? Budget deal provides loan forgiveness to 4 affected HBCUs

NABJ partners with Facebook to offer scholarship opportunities for Black student journalists

Anti-Blackness in preschool classrooms: Combatting conditioning early to save our kids

New Jersey program shows how training teachers of color in science inspires future scientists of color

White supremacists are targeting colleges for racist proliferation and footholds

“I’m is talking right”: How the stigma around Black language holds us back from liberation

U.S. spends more on healthcare, is still learning from Cuban experts how to curb infant mortality

New Vox report shows how gerrymandering segregates school districts to benefit white pupils

Study connects sound racial identity with positive academic performance for Black girls

Kids are freezing in Baltimore schools because Black children are viewed as disposable

Report: Robots in the workforce are accelerating pay gaps for women and people of color

Don’t touch our hair: In hilarious online game ‘Hair Nah’, Black folk’s hair is off limits

Harvard announces Gullah language course as part of its African Language Program

New book from Zora Neale Hurston about the last survivor of the Atlantic slave trade to be released in 2018

High school senior creates CopStop app to help youth with police encounters

Google to give $1.5 million to SocialWorks, Chance the Rapper’s youth charity, & Chicago Public Schools

Learning to love myself as a Black queer man in a Black Greek Letter Organization

‘Families of Chicago’ to host a safe space for LGBTQ people of color with 2nd annual holiday banquet

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