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Florida jury spitefully awards Black children $4 for father’s death by cops, attorney says

‘The First Purge’ will finally center people of color in its violent, dystopian narrative

Black boy gone: Why this former minister left the church behind

We need to acknowledge genocides outside of the European/Jewish Holocaust

Learning when to cut off toxic marginalized people is imperative to Black mental health

I’m not bipolar, I’m just traumatized: What I learned about Black womanhood from my misdiagnosis

Comic: Stop pretending there’s no room for people of color in the fantasy realm

You ain’t responsible for protecting your fave from critique

PTSD is more common than you think

“Why can’t we just let Black people enjoy something?”

‘MTV Shuga’ is a messy millennial edutainment series educating African youth about sexual health

Black mental health care needs to involve more than therapy

Asian Americans increasingly on the white side of the class divide, rate the economy accordingly

Masturbation as resistance, because I deserve to cum

When your mother is your first abuser

Janelle Monáe and the road to ‘Dirty Computer’

In an anti-Black capitalist society, the guilt of Black “success” is almost unavoidable

Black women have been organizing against R. Kelly since long before his #MeToo reckoning

I don’t want as many “chances” to f*ck up as Kanye

Comic: Stop stealing from Black women

Iconic Black men are falling from grace. Good.

We let Kanye get away with being Kanye for too long

Waffle House, Starbucks, and the unalterable anti-Black, patriarchal violence of newsworthiness

Janelle Monáe’s ‘Pynk’ subtly acknowledges the existence of trans bodies, but we deserve more than that

Stop misusing “people of color” to erase issues specific to Black people

The tragedy and hilarity of Iyanla Vanzant’s ‘Fix My Life’ antics with Hazel-E

Weed legalization highlights how progressive policies deceptively re-entrench anti-Black dynamics

A brief history of reactionary white violence in America

The bittersweetness in Junot Diaz’s #MeToo moment and how men traumatize women on their way to healing

“Thinking Blackly”: State violence, U.S. law, and legal death dealing

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