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How Digital Media Aids—And Complicates—The Struggle for Justice

Who’s making the ‘Lemonade’? On bell hooks’ and Beyoncé’s Feminisms

The Current State of Criminal Justice Reform: An Interview with Shaka Senghor

These Four Poems About Black Hair, Resistance, and Love Will Brighten Your Day

Panther Power: Afeni Shakur and the ‘New York 21’

These Black West Point Cadets’ Raised Fists Are Not All That Political

Viola Davis and Kerry Washington are Creating Production Companies

Jean-Louis’ Images are a Reminder of the Beauty and Power of Black Hair

7 Black Sitcom Moms We Love In Our Bones

President Obama Introduced National Teacher Of the Year

‘Dear White People’ Comes to Netflix

Obama Drinks Water In Flint To Prove It’s Safe

Janet Mock: Trans Women Live At The Intersection Of ‘Pass Her By And Pay Her No Mind’

Na Ponta dos Pés is a Ballet Studio and a Safe Haven for Brazilian Girls

In New Johns Hopkins Study, Black Women’s Hair Can’t Win For Losing

Wade Davis Talks Being Gay in Sports in New TED Talk

Afeni Shakur Passes Away at 69

Joy Reid Gets Melissa Harris-Perry’s MSNBC Time Slot

This Dance Studio is Breaking the Color Lines and Empowering Dancers of Color

Obama Responds To 8-Year-Old’s Letter, Announces Trip To Flint, MI

Amandla Stenberg Opens Up About Their Gender Identity

Tyler James Williams is Changing the Game in New Series

WGN’s ‘Underground’ Renewed for Season 2

Cleveland to Pay $6 Million in Settlement to Tamir Rice’s Family Estate

Bryshere Gray to Play in New Edition Biopic

Broadway’s ‘The Color of Purple’ cast performed a beautiful tribute to Prince

“A Different World” Cast Greeted To Their Own Theme Song At Norfolk State

Chicago Should Not Have Needed The Police Accountability Report

Reflections on Prince, the Icon, the Artist, the Purple One Forever

Zoe Saldana Speaks On Playing Nina Simone And How She Got The Role

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