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Detroit Public Schools May Close After April 8 Due To Lack Of Funds

10 Black Podcasts You Need In Your Life

No Place For ‘Solidarity’: A Reflection on Black Femmes in Social Movement

Q-Tip Named As The Kennedy Center’s First Artistic Director Of Hip-Hop Culture

Black Student Forced to Leave School for Not Cutting Dreadlocks

Obama Cuts Funding for Christian-Based Abstinence Sex-Ed Program

Black Student Recorded Teacher Who Said Her Only Purpose Was to “Have Sex and Children”

Gabby Douglas Wins The American Cup, Proves She’s Ready for the Olympics

The Problems With Zoe Saldana’s Casting As Nina Simone Are More Than Skin Deep

Nine Republicans Vote ‘No’ to Naming Post Office After Maya Angelou

Berta Caceres, Honduran Activist, Assassinated on Wednesday

#ThouCrushThursday celebrates desire beyond the gender binary

Mya Taylor is the First Out Trans Actress to Win Major Film Award

Did We Do Enough To Save Chicago State University? Not At All.

New Report Says 1 in 2 Black Gay Men will Contract HIV

Black Boy on Honor Roll Suspended for ‘Design’ in His Hair

50-Year-Old Woman Dies In Jail After 27 Hours Without Water

Killer Mike: “The only person I have the conscience to vote for is Bernard Sanders”

Kanye West’s ‘The Life of Pablo’ Feels Like His Last Album

Mississippi Declares April Confederate Heritage Month

WatchCut Celebrates 100 Years in Black Men’s Hair

Why It Took So Long for Another Black American Girl Doll

U Houston Asks Faculty To Change Methods Due To New Campus Carry Law

We have to stop the murders of trans people in the United States

Watch The Funny “Save My Edges” Campaign From CentricTV

Celebrities Call on #JUSTICEFORFLINT during the Oscars

Students Who Forced a U-Lock on a Black Student’s Neck Won’t Be Charged With a Hate Crime

Young Activists Disrupt Anita Alvarez Campaign Event Chanting “16 Shots!”

Chicago Mayor Goes After ‘Loosies’ Instead of Unfair Tax Policy

Harvard Promotes Michelle Williams As First African-American Faculty Dean

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