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If Black innocence never exists to the state, how can passivism and perfect victimhood save us?

Man arrested for machete stabbing while yelling racial slurs

Keep your white friends and partners away from Black Pride events

Behind Amy Schumer’s ‘Get Out’ joke: The horrible legacy of claiming the Black phallus endangers white women

What you need to know about Trump’s proposed $9 billion budget slashes to public education

Liberation is a 3-step process: Broadening activism’s scope in the wake of the Movement for Black Lives

Revolutionary Poetry for Edward Crawford

When I, a Black person, was told I didn’t know enough about another culture to have opinions on slavery

Jeff Sessions is working to undo the work of anti-prison activists

Reading came first: how I journeyed from hotep to Black queer feminist

Chicago man charged after punching Black woman security guard, Zoa Stigler, on camera

I’ll still complain about politics even when I don’t vote – fight me.

Yes, Black liberals commodify Black Lives Matter too and it’s a major problem

Miley Cyrus finally announces the end of her minstrel show, proving once and for all the violence of appropriation

Boko Haram Frees 82 Schoolgirls From 2014 Capture

Why seeing the murder of Ashanti Hunter as anti-Black violence does not distract us from fighting for Black men and boys

What you need to know about Chicago’s ‘gang database’ and the lawsuit from local activists

Why The #BlackAndTraveling Movement Must Confront Its Classism

The forgotten collateral of exhuming the Black dead through art

White people have long tried to obscure slavery as the cause of the Civil War. Donald Trump is no different.

Details of Jordan Edwards’ Police Shooting Death Change

How Jesse Williams’ divorce highlights the way white-supremacist beauty standards affect relationships

Black people not voting is logical, and vote pushers are usually anti-Black

Oprah Winfrey brings power and emotion to ‘The Immortal Henrietta Lacks’

Black men, we need to acknowledge that we are the problem. Let’s talk toxic masculinity.

For Karen Smith And Other Black Women Who Seek Freedom When The Misogynoir Is Enough

Solidarity can’t work without understanding that Blackness has a role in every struggle

Trevor Wilkins, Princeton Alum, Co-Created App That Encourages Good Grades

RedBlkGrl: The Box With Books by and For Black Girls

Why intersectional feminism needs reproductive justice approaches to HIV

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