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A Reflection on Trayvon Martin’s 21st Birthday

What I Hope to See At the 2016 NAACP Image Awards

Smithsonian African-American Museum Opens September 24.

Audio Interviews in Sandra Bland Case Only Discuss Marijuana

Black Children Are More Likely to Be Beaten By Their Teachers

Embracing New Ways To Celebrate Black History Month

NBC Honors 28 African-Americans This Year

Slavery Stories Can Be Great But We’re Rarely the Ones Telling Them

The SAG Awards Picks Up Where The Oscars Didn’t

New Barbie Dolls Showcase Diversity But Is It Too Late?

Snoop Dogg Sits Down To Meet With Mayor Of Flint About Water Crisis

ICYMI: President Obama Takes a Stand for Gender Equality

The Diversity of the SAG Awards Brought Out the Racism of #SAGsSoBlack

Girl Scouts Choose Transgender Girls over $100,000 Donation

“An African City” is all the things “Sex and the City” Wasn’t

The Underlying Discomfort With Cam Newton’s Blackness

It Matters That the ‘Straight Outta Compton’ Cast Wasn’t Invited to the Oscars

Study Shows New HIV Findings That Could Lead to a Cure

It’s Simple. I Choose Neither Hillary nor Bernie.

The Game Donates $1 Million to Flint, Michigan

Quintonio LeGrier Called 911 Three Times Before Police Shot Him to Death

Whether You Like It Or Not, “White Privilege II” Is A Required Listen

A White Actor Cast as Micheal Jackson? Tinseltown Doesn’t Want Us to Win

Nate Parker’s ‘The Birth of A Nation’ Couldn’t Have Come At A Better Time

Jeferson Lima’s Photographs Capture #BlackGirlMagic in Salvador, Brazil

Supreme Court Allows Teens Convicted on Murder a Chance at Parole

B.o.B Has Some Different Opinions about the Shape of the Earth

Maybe Chicago’s Priority Should Be Jobs For The Youth

An 11-year-old Black Girl Starts #1000BlackGirlBooks

Big Sean Launches Campaign for Flint Children

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