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New PETA Ad: Morally Reprehensible, Racially Insensitive, and Remarkably Selfish

#YouTriedIt: Complicating Comparisons of Drag and Blackface

Queering Black History & Getting Free

Miss. Judge Indicted 9 Months After Reportedly Hitting Mentally Disabled Man and Yelling ‘Run, N–ger, Run’

Kanye: Prophet or Punk

Jackie Robinson West & Black “Border-Jumping”

Nikisha, One Half of Urban Bush Babes, Talks About Her Struggle With Mental Illness

Watch: ‘Straight Outta Compton’ Trailer

Is ‘Orange’ the New Green?

Stay Mad Then! : In Defence of The Right To Be Angry

Black Future Month: Why “History” Don’t Satisfy

Get Free: LGBT Rights and Black Liberation

From Brownsville to the White House

Un/Classically Beautiful: The Problem with the 2015 Grammy Awards’ Selma “Tribute”

Pay what you owe: How Nike profits from African-American cool

We Out (T)here: Afrofuturism in the Age of Non-Indictments

On the Very Real Possibility of a Super Bowl Conspiracy

Video: How ‘Broken Windows’ Policing Harms People of Color

#BlackGirlsMatter Report: Black Girls Face Much Harsher School Discipline Than Their White Peers

Watch: Marshawn Lynch and the Theater of Disobedience

Ya Tú Sabes: Being Boricua and Morena

We Have a New Look!

For Bobbi Kristina

What Marshawn Lynch and Richard Sherman Teach Us About Respectability & Black Masculinity

Reproductive Justice Matters

Missy in action: why pop needs Missy Elliott to get her freak on again

Baltimore School Police Officer Left 13-Year-Old Girl Bloodied

Parents: Howard University Middle School Teachers Fired For Teaching Black History

Saved By the Bell Hooks Is Perfect

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