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When the Mental Health System Failed Me, Online Communities Became My Coping Mechanisms

Is Race a Myth?

Kamala Harris Launches Bid for US Senate Seat

When Will the North Face Its Racism?

Why Black New Yorkers Like Me Are Celebrating the NYPD Work Slowdown

From Ferguson to Palestine: Dream Defenders, BYP100, Black Lives Matter, and Ferguson Activists Travel to Palestine

Nearly 2,000 Killed by Boko Haram

Paris, #BlackLivesMatter, the Cultural Violence, and the White Western State

‘Because White Men Can’t Police Their Imagination, Black Men Are Dying’

The Idea Revolution: How Youth of Color Will Build Our Future

We’ll Need an Economic Program to Make #BlackLivesMatter. Here Are Three Ideas.

President Obama Just Changed the Game

New Footage Shows Officers Restraining Tamir Rice’s Sister

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

Why, Phylicia? Bye, Phylicia.

One Million to Lose Food Stamp Benefits

Where Is the 24-Hour News Cycle on the Bomb At a Colorado NAACP?

NYC Students Can View ‘Selma’ for Free

New Blackness: Pharrell, Kanye and Jay-Z and the Spectre of White Aspiration

Surprise! Malia Obama Is a Regular Teenager

Black Brunch Won’t Let Us Turn Away From Victims Of Police Violence

Reforms target job barriers for ex-offenders

‪#‎ByePhylicia‬: Phylicia Rashad Breaks Silence, Supports Bill Cosby

NAACP Office Bombed

Ava DuVernay: ‘I Wasn’t Interested in Making a White-Savior Movie’

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The Co-Opt

Inspired by Daughter, Rapper Danny Brown Writing Children’s Book

Ferguson Grand Juror Sues Prosecutor

What the backlash against ‘bae’ reveals about society’s attitude toward black culture

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