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BYP Memo: Young People’s Attitudes toward President Obama, Political Parties, and Government, Implications for the Midterm Elections

“B**ches Ain’t Sh*t”… And Apparently Every Other Woman Is Too

Why We Must Expect More From Hip Hop Artists

Feature: Mirror Mirror when style is ‘ghetto’ on black women, ‘chic’ on whites

Feature: Nurturing black youth activism

Feature: A New, Safer Chicago? End the Grass Gap

Feature: ‘Sophia Tears’ a poem in memory of Sophia Brown

Allowance Part 2

Feature: How the War on Drugs Damages Black Social Mobility

Feature: In Defense of Ms. Hill

Why I’m a Black Man Before I’m a Gay Man

Feature: Mostly Black Cities, Mostly White City Halls

Feature: When white friends don’t believe what blacks go through, they’re not friends

Feature: Black Men and the Stain of Colorism

Reflections on Ferguson and Beyond

Tell the City of Pittsburgh to Let Leon Ford Live

Feature: Why does a black butt only look good in white skin?

Feature: We still lie about slavery, Here’s the truth about how the American economy and power were built on forced migration and torture

Feature: In Ohio, Black Youth Won’t Let Another Police Shooting Fade Into the Background

Spotting Bigotry On Spotify: How One Playlist Description Promotes And Perpetuates Racism

Feature: The racial parenting divide: What Adrian Peterson reveals about black vs. white child-rearing

Feature: Black Girls Murdered: But Do You Care?

Feature: How HBCUs Respond to a Call for Inclusion of LGBT Students

The Legacy of August Wilson and the Importance of Preserving Spaces for Black Culture

Feature: why one domestic violence victim never went back

The Darkest Rose: Colorism Shows No Beauty

Feature: ‘A National Admissions Office’ For Low-Income Strivers

Allowance

Feature: Black Women Are Already Dead in America

Feature: Cops beat, kidnap 12-year-old girl after claiming she was a prostitute

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