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One Year Later: Trayvon and the Value of Black Life

Two Teens Arrested for Instigating and Filming Fight Between Two 7 Year-old Girls

The Onion’s CEO Apologizes to 9 Year-Old Quvenzhané Wallis

The Onion Tweets an Incredibly Bad Joke about 9 Year-Old Quvenzhané Wallis

Stop Saying Little Black Girls Are “Too Grown”

Teacher Under Fire for Giving Students Slavery Word Problems

Emmett Till’s Family Write Open Letter to Lil Wayne

On This Day 48 Years Ago, Malcolm X Was Assassinated

Maya Angelou to Younger Generation: You Are Not the B-Word; You Are Not the N-Word

Happy Birthday Nina Simone!

Sweet Brown Addresses Black Exploitation

Rahm Emanuel Announces Five-Year Plan to Invest $50 Million in Youth Programs

Chicago Public Schools Might Be Sued for Lack of Black History in Curriculum

New Report Addresses America’s Unequal Education System; Pushes for Large-Scale Reform

Hospital Accused of Granting Man’s Request that No Black Nurses Care for His Baby

Lisa Lampanelli Sparks Outrage Over Use of the N-Word; Says Context Matters

19 Year-Old Darrell Wallace Is The Fourth African American Driver to Race a Full Season in a NASCAR Series

Georgia Police Notify Mother of Son’s Death via FACEBOOK?!

Hadiya Pendleton’s Mother Featured in New Gun Control Ad

Mississippi Finally Gets Around to Ratifying 13th Amendment Banning Slavery

We All Have Work to Do to End Gun Violence

Another Killer Cop Goes Free

Janay McFarlane Killed Same Day Her Sister Attended President’s Gun Violence Speech

If We Must Die: A Playlist

Jesus Christ: The Greatest Community Organizer Of All Time

Marginalization of Black Youth is a Manifestation of Capitalism

The Black Family Reunion: CIAA, Charlotte, NC

“Bad” Kids Don’t Deserve to Die Either

BYP’s Aisha Truss-Miller and Chris Buford Discuss Gun Violence, Obama Visit on NPR

Student Discovers Forgotten Poem by America’s First Known Black Writer

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