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Black man accused of killing 7-year-old after witnesses pointed to white suspect says he’s innocent

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

How white narcissism affords only white people the right to fear

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

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

Black men need to abandon “pimp” culture and support Black women sex workers

I’m tired of watching white men get away with sexual violence against Black men

In defense of The Gay Agenda: Reimagining life without cis-heteros

Black excellence?: How a school abused Black students & got fame for sending them to Ivy Leagues

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

‘Surviving R. Kelly’: It takes a village to fail a child

The excellence of Black Hollywood doesn’t need to be validated by mainstream awards

What do we do with abusers like R. Kelly if we abolish prisons?

Trans people have the right to forgive transphobia on our own terms

Exposing children to examples of protest plants the seeds for them to fight for justice

Queering Kwanzaa: How the seven principles remind me of QTPOC power

Reconciling ‘glorious healing’ & the ‘loving refusal’ of intracommunal violence in an era of disposability

It’s not just white incels. We need to talk about the Black Manosphere, too.

Comic: I’ll believe The Lord is against homosexuality when he tells me

Why do so many others want to claim Blackness if it means oppression?

Anti-Black bullying in schools devastates children. We need to invest in their healing

Navigating Christmas as a sexual assault survivor brought up in the Catholic church

Spike Lee produced Netflix film ‘See You Yesterday’ brings us the Black time travelers we need

How liberal discourse that distances migrants from “criminals” obscures the crimes of this anti-Black state

Finding our way back to the religions stolen from our ancestors

‘The House That Will Not Stand’ is not a celebration of affluent Black women, it’s an indictment of the racial caste system

Your perfect work record won’t protect you if you’re Black and don’t stay in your place

Marc Lamont Hill was fired for telling the truth about the Palestinian resistance

The bar for white “allies” is absurdly low and I’m tired of watching them be praised for reaching it

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