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Women’s Her-story Moment: Why Do Black Women Swoon over President Barack Obama? Desperation?

SIGN THIS PETITION, Calling for the Prosecution of Trayvon Martin’s Killer

When Queers Get Political

What Women’s Magazines Are Really Saying: You Need A Boyfriend

The Radical Imagination Series: Illy L

Trayvon Martin Case Turned Over to State Attorney’s Office

State Senator Wants to Ban Sagging Pants in NYC Public Schools

White Students Learn “The Streets” at the University

Book List “Our Black Year”

HIV Among Black Women Higher Than Initially Thought; Comparable to sub-Saharan Africa

Black Youth in the News: March 5-11

George Zimmerman, the man who murdered an unarmed 17 year old boy, has still not been arrested

George Zimmerman, Neighborhood Watch Captain Who Killed Trayvon Martin, Has VIOLENT History

Today in Post-Race History: A Quick Note to Jada Williams

R.I.P. The Notorious B.I.G., Hip Hop’s Greatest Emcee

Sorry Critics, Why I Still Will Be Drinking the KONY 2012 Kool-Aid

KONY 2012, the Future of 21st Century Activism, & Remnants of Problematic Privilege

REPORT: Hate Groups and Militias On The Rise Since Obama Election

Are We as Liberal as We Like to Believe?

17 year-old Trayvon Martin Shot in His Gated Community by Neighborhood Watch

And the Attack on Women’s Reproductive Rights Continues…

‘Toughest-in-the-Nation’ Voter ID Law Halted By WI Judge

Racism Is Nothing But Sex

REPORT: Black Students Face Harsher Discipline In Schools

The Future of Hip-Hop is Conscious Music

Black Youth in the News: Feb. 27 – March 4

On the Inevitable #Fail of the Whitney Houston Biopic

The Kindness of Strangers: Recognizing Humanity

I killed my Black Mother and Now I am a Real Black Man: 14 year-old Black Boy Kills Mother?

Maryland’s Marriage Equality, The Ballroom Scene, & Legends

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