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Powerful women in Hollywood come together to release multi-faceted anti-harassment plan

The Black church isn’t one-dimensional either: How Gullah-Geechee people subvert Christianity to retain Black history

Black joy is resistance: Why we need a movement to balance Black triumph with trials

Comic: I’m tired of homophobia and feigned Afrocentrism from Black Christians

A 2018 calendar and watch list for Black moviegoers and film buffs

For Christians, Christmas shouldn’t just be a celebration, but a time to recommit to Black liberation

My Black girl magic is not the work of God

But Black women are not cocoons: I’m tired of being expected to mother Black men and applaud when they finally grow up

Where were internet access crusaders when Facebook stopped Korryn Gaines from streaming cops murdering her?

The Black church taught me to be a docile victim, and now I renounce its lessons

Luther Vandross hid for his mama: The closet is not only for the self-hating and selfish

He’s gotta stop it: A Black, polyamorous femme on the Netflix “She’s Gotta Have It” reboot

To the women who bent my reflection: How internalized misogyny creates toxic relationships among women

Passing a clean Dream Act would combat global anti-Blackness

How growing up in what some called a religious “cult” helped me make sense of police abolition

How suffocating ideas of masculinity took the precious life of Giovanni Melton

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

Timbaland discusses his drug addiction and depression in new interview

How Tyrese used misogynoir and Black patriarchy to gain sympathy, support, and joint custody

Comcast removed Net Neutrality promises the same day the FCC announced plans to repeal

Rediscovering the Black Girl Magic in literature that was snuffed out of my childhood

North Korea performs intercontinental missile test after the U.S. names it a sponsor of terrorism

Decolonizing Black intellectualism: How society’s ideas around knowledge leave some Black people behind

Brave 10-year-old Ronyde Christina Ponthieux records video plea to save Haitian protected status

Twitter is deleting white supremacists’ verification badges, but not their rhetoric

“Prison was good for me”: How the state manipulates barely surviving its brutality into sanctuary

Comic: When white people think ancestry is easy

Who owns the Black experience?: Decolonizing theory & how the academy commodifies Black life

From the Million Woman March to #Metoo: How movements created by and for Black women are appropriated

She ain’t white girl pregnant: Black, queer & expecting in an anti-Black, anti-queer world

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