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Jesse Williams to Star and Produce Harry Belafonte Biopic

Kehlani, Depression, and Why It’s Time to Stop Belittling It

The ‘White Boy In Locs’ Movement Isn’t Just About A Hairstyle

11-Year-Old Closes Lemonade Expansion Deal With Whole Foods

Sean Combs’ Charter School Is Great, But Only Half The Answer

‘Black Girl Nerds’ Founder Jamie Broadnax On Being Black, Woman, and Nerdy

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This Poet Is Calling Out The Founding Fathers For Their Erasure Of Black People

It’s Time Black Actresses Played More Than The ‘Sassy’ Sidekick

Black Girls Rock! Pushes Back Against Erasure Of Black Women On TV

Teen Promotes ‘The Go’ As Chicago’s New Nickname With T-Shirt Campaign

Kelly Rowland’s New Makeup Line Is For Us Highly Melanated Folks

UFC Fighter Ronda Rousey’s Great Grandfather was a Famous Black Physician

Slam Poet Makes Devastating Mad Lib About Police Brutality

Mizzou Students Release Short Film Called ‘Concerned Student 1950’

Milwaukee Coalition Advocates For Triple Homicide To Be Labeled a Hate Crime

Fox 2000 Buys Film Rights to Black Lives Matter movie, Amandla Stenberg to Star

Couple Forced To Undergo ‘Spelling Test’ To Vote In North Carolina Primary

How To Get Away with Murder and Its Complicated Representation of Blackness

Watch Dorothy Roberts Explain Why Race-Based Medicine Doesn’t Work

Google’s #BlackGirlMagic Doodle Was Created By A Black High School Student

President Obama Is The First President to Speak at SXSW

It’s Important That Maria Sharapova’s Doping Isn’t Bigger News

Bernie Sanders and the Exclusionary Legacy of the Far Left

Five Reasons Why South by Southwest 2016 Is Extra Dope

This video explains why objectifying women is so problematic

First Lady Takes Full Feminist Form at SXSW

Chicago Police Says ‘Typical f—ing ni–ers’ Over Radio And Other Bigotry

A Visible Love, A Visible Movement: An Interview With Veronica Morris-Moore

#UnfairandLovely is A Stand Against Colorism

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