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What our fixation on Michelle Obama’s hair says about the space we give Black women to breathe

I still love you Janelle Monáe but you’ve got this “consider stopping having sex” thing all wrong

How a Chicago mayor’s proposal to make post-grad plans a requirement for graduating harms Black & Brown students

Why Stanford accepting the teen who wrote #BlackLivesMatter 100 times on his application does little for Black lives

There’s a deeper message behind that Kendall Jenner Pepsi ad

California Wants to Repeal Felony HIV Criminalization Laws. No, That Does Not Deserve Backlash.

Rachel Dolezal, Farcical Blackness and ‘Eating the Other’

The Onus of Belonging: On Disability, Disney Princesses, and Finding My Tribe

Chance the Rapper is the Hero Chicago Students Deserve

11-Year-Old Prepares To Conduct A 75-Piece Orchestra

How femmephobia and the gender binary caused me to hate myself

Hawaiian Rep. Beth Fukumoto’s Departure from GOP Raises Questions About Millennials and the Republican Party

Rival Parents Yell ‘Go Back To Mexico’ To Fourth Grade Robotics Champs

This Cover of TIME Came and Went, but it has a Message for Our Movement

Why I’m tired of white gay men telling queer stories

8-Year-Old Writes Best Seller About Dealing With Annoying Little Brothers

Black Family Forced To Leave New Home After Burglary And Racist Graffiti

10 Reasons Donald Trump Needs To Keep His Hands Off Young People’s Health Coverage

Chance the Rapper Touches On Black Mental Health In Complex Cover Story

With Almost No Black and Latinx Employees, Mark Zuckerberg Lectures On Diversity in Silicon Valley

Four Signs That You Might Subscribe to the Politics of Respectability

ICYMI: Check Out This Video Of Celebs Who Want You To Know James Baldwin’s Legacy

Artist Makeda Lewis on Luck And Her Now Iconic Afro-Feminist Coloring Book

Marvel Highlights Queer Latina Superhero And Hires Queer Latina Writer To Do It

Meet Chicago’s First Transgender Filipina Bakery Owner

The Kalief Browder Docuseries Builds a Clear Case for Prison Abolition

Put Your Mind – and Money – Into Supporting Black Women

That Meeting Between Trump’s White House and HBCU Presidents Was Doomed Before It Began

How our unhealthy understandings of accountability promote a race to the bottom

Chyna Doll Dupree, Transgender Woman, Killed In New Orleans

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